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PG-P.761.022
19 Mar 1761:13,21 (1682)
Philadelphia, March 19, 1758. For the entertainment of the
curious, A Course of Electrical experiments, accompanied
with lectures on the nature and properties of lightening,
shewing an infallible method of preventing its worst and
most dreadful effects, is proposed to be exhibited at the
college (provided the air be dry enough) on Monday and
Tuesday, the 23d and 24th instant; and again on the
following Wednesday and Thursday.
by Ebenezer Kinnersley, M.A. Professor of English and
Oratory, in the College and Academy of Philadelphia.
[2 columns: 2 lectures with 27 and 21 experiments
respectively. Number 26 in the first lecture is] Eight
musical bells rung by an electrified phial of water.
[Number 20 in the second lecture is:] A curious machine put
in motion by lightning, and playing variety of tunes on
eight musical bells.
. . . [at bottom of second column:] The lectures to begin
each day, precisely at eleven o'clock in the forenoon.
Tickets to be had at Mr. Kinnersley's house, in Market-
street, and at the London Coffee-house. Price, half a
dollar for each lecture.
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