speaking of electricity...

[pynchonoid]

Benjamin Franklin's 'lightning kite' paper goes online
09:00 16 September 2006

It was a celebrated experiment demonstrating the
electrical nature of lightning. And it's just gone
electronic.

Benjamin Franklin's 1752 paper describing how he
conducted lightning with a kite is one of hundreds of
landmark scientific papers now available to the public
in an electronic archive compiled by the Royal Society
in London. The papers date back 340 years to the first
scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions,
published in 1665. Among them is Edmund Halley's
description in 1705 of the comet named after him;
Isaac Newton's invention of the reflecting telescope;
the first paper published by Stephen Hawking and
details of the DNA double helix published in 1953 by
James Watson and Francis Crick.

Free for two months from 14 September, the archive
includes reports of the discovery of penicillin and
proposals for blood transfusions penned in 1665 by
Robert Boyle, to see "whether a fierce dog stocked
with the blood of a cowardly dog may become more
tame". The archive is at 
www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/archive.


http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10092-benjamin-franklins-lightning-kite-paper-goes-online.html

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