Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; With An Introduction And Notes
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They were imperfectly performed, as he was not very expert ; but being on a subject quite new to me, they equally surprised and pleased me. Soon after my return to Philadelphia our library company received from Mr. Peter Collinson, Fellow of the Royal Society of London, a present of a glass tube, with some account of the use of it in making such experiments. I eagerly seized the opportunity of repeating what I had seen at Boston, and by much. practice acquired great readi- ness in performing th...ose also which we had an account of from England, adding a number of new ones. I say much practice, for my house was continually full for some time with persons who came to see these new wonders. To divide a little this incumbrance among my friends I caused a number of similar tubes to be blown in our glass- house, with which they furnished themselves, so that we had at length several performers. Among these the principal was Mr. Kinnersley, an ingenious "neighbor, who, being out of busi- ness, I encouraged him to undertake showing the experiments for money, and drew up for him two lectures, in which the experiments were ranged in such order and accompanied with explanations in such method as that the foregoing should assist in comprehending the following.
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