[ Philadelphia], 1749
SIR,
. . . . . . . . . . .
CHAGRINED a little that we have been hitherto able to produce nothing in this way of use to mankind; and the hot weather coming on, when electrical experiments are not so agreeable, it is proposed to put an end to them for this season, somewhat humorously, in a party of pleasure on the banks of Skuylkil. Spirits, at the same time, are to be fired by a spark sent from side to side through the river, without any other conductor than the water; an experiment which we some time since performed, to the amazement of many.
A turkey is to be killed for our dinner by the electrical shock, and roasted by the electrical jack, before a fire kindled by the electrified bottle: when the healths of all the famous electricians in England, Holland, France, and Germany are to be drank in electrified bumpers, under the discharge of guns from the electrical battery.
April 29, 1749.
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Publication information:
Book title: The Ingenious Dr. Franklin:Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin.
Contributors: Nathan G. Goodman - Editor, Benjamin Franklin - Author.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Place of publication: Philadelphia.
Publication year: 1931.
Page number: 110.
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