Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Priestley, Joseph (1775), The History and Present State of Electricity with Original Experiments, Retrieved on 2012-06-21Source Material [books.google.com]
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21 JUN 2012
Benjamin Franklin Discovers Electricity
As every circumstance relating to so capital a discovery as this (the greatest, perhaps, that has been made in the whole compass of philosophy, since the time of Sir Isaac Newton) cannot but give pleasure to all my readers, I shall endeavour to gratify them with the communication of a few particulars which I have from the best authority. The Doctor [Benjamin Franklin], after having published his method of verifying his hypothesis concerning the sameness of electricity with the matter lightnin...An account of his kite experiment.