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Title: Priestley, Joseph to Benjamin Franklin, 1781 December 10; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. to Benjamin Franklin
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:10552
Description: Joseph Priestley quickly updates Benjamin Franklin on his scientific experiments.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Social networks--18th century; Science--History--18th century
Date: 1781-12-10; 2022

Title: Shipley, Georgiana to Benjamin Franklin, 1779 June 06; Shipley, Georgiana, 1756-1806. to Benjamin Franklin
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:9721
Description: G. Shipley writes to B. Franklin about a portrait he sent to her as well as a wax portrait of her father and a drawing she is sending him. She describes a dinner with Mr. Vaughan and the electricity experiments that occured. Shipley concludes by discussing the current parliament session.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Women--History--18th century; Portrait painting--18th century; Science--History--18th century
Date: 1779-06-06; 2022

Title: Shipley, Georgiana to Benjamin Franklin, 1780 May 26; Shipley, Georgiana, 1756-1806. to Benjamin Franklin
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:9767
Description: Georgiana Shipley sends Benjamin Franklin a drawing she has done after a picture by Joshua Reynolds. She writes about her family as well as the popularity of electricity as a cure-all.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Women--History--18th century; Science--History--18th century; Painting, Modern--18th century--History
Date: 1780-05-26; 2022

Title: Bettally and Noseda to William Temple Franklin, 1782 October 1; Bettally and Noseda. to William Temple Franklin
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:26367
Description: Letter from Bettally and Noseda to William Temple Franklin. Sending a sample of Phosphorous candles. Bettally was a French maker and dealer of scientific instruments who was at the time working with Noseda, a partner about whom we know little. This document concerns an invention that Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier had described and announced for sale in the previous day's Journal de Paris: phosphoric candles, or self-igniting candles. Bettally & Noseda, finding that their customers complained of low success rates, soon began selling phosphoric candles of their own manufacture. Franklin was so impressed with these devices that he included phosphoric candles among the recent scientific developments he described to François Steinsky and Jan Ingenhousz. When Thomas Jefferson arrived in Paris in 1784, he was likewise amazed by these “phosphoretic matches” and planned to send some to America. He later learned that they were already being sold in Philadelphia.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Social networks--18th century; Household supplies; Science--History--18th century; Bettally and Noseda; Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823
Date: 1782-10-01; 2022

Title: Vaughan, Benjamin to Benjamin Franklin, 1782 January 09; Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835. to Benjamin Franklin
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:11058
Description: Benjamin Vaughan writes to Benjamin Franklin. He sends a number of papers including on on fair rings, on the "inflammation" of candles, and another on the riots during the Protestant petitions. Vaughan mentions that he is about to publish a response to "systems connected with atheism." He writes about some letters and other matters related to John Laurens and, perhaps, Henry Laurens, West India, and the bearer of the letter, Mr. Courtauld.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Political Philosophy; Social networks--18th century; Science--History--18th century; Atheism--History; Laurens, John, 1754-1782; Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792
Date: 1782-01-09; 2022