speaking of electricity...

[Dave Monroe]

Fara, Patricia.  An Entertainment for Angels:
   Electricity in the Enlightenment.
   Cambridge, UK: Icon, 2002. NY: Columbia UP, 2003.

http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/dept/publications.html

http://www.iconbooks.co.uk/book.cfm?isbn=1-84046-348-1

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023113/0231131488.HTM

Schiffer, Michael Brian.  Draw the Lightning Down:
   Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology
   in the Age of Enlightenment.  Berkeley: U of
   California  P, 2003.

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10002.html

Tucker, Tom.  Bolt of Fate: Benjamin Franklin and
   His Electric Kite Hoax.  NY: PublicAffairs, 2003.

http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=1891620703

Benjamin Franklin's Science

http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/29778

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Benjamin Franklin's 'lightning kite' paper goes
> online
> 09:00 16 September 2006
> 
> www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/archive.
> 
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10092-benjamin-franklins-lightning-kite-paper-goes-online.html

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