Kinnersley, collaborator with Benjamin Franklin in his electrical studies, lectured on electricity and lightning in Philadelphia, Newport, New York, and elsewhere before accepting an appointment as professor of English at the College of Philadelphia in 1753.; Photocopy. Location of original source unknown.
Appear from the number (XXXII) to be part of a series of printed letters from this discoverer of electromagnetic induction and primary architect of classical Field Theory. Illustrated, with two diagrams. ; Item call number: 500 Pam. v. 6, no. 7.
Sent to Peter Du Ponceau, president of the American Philosophical Society by John R. W. Dunbar, and read before the society on July 19, 1833. Includes manuscript note in the margin signed by Dunbar who performed a series of electrical experiments on the body of a recently executed criminal. By applying shocks from a battery supplied by Dr. [Julius Timoleon] Ducatel of the University of Maryland, and belonging to Mr. Edmondson, Dunbar was able evoke severe muscular contractions in the corpse.
