speaking of electricity...

[David Casseres]

And in 1865, James Clerk Maxwell publishes his Dynamical Theory of the
Electromagnetic Field, the mightiest achievement in physics up until
Einstein.

On 9/16/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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