An international system of electro-therapeutics : for students, general practitioners, and specialists . Paris; LouisXY and all his court has-tened to see them, and werecliarmed and amazed atFranklins genius and thewonders of the new science ;public lecture-rooms wereopened for their perform-ance, and all Paris throngedto the rare exhibition. Theletters were translated intomany languages, and sud-denly the name of the ob-scure printer in Philadelphiabecame one of the most re-nowned in the annals ofscience. His theories wereassailed by the Abbe Nolletand a party of tlie Frenchphilosophers, but
An international system of electro-therapeutics : for students, general practitioners, and specialists . Paris; LouisXY and all his court has-tened to see them, and werecliarmed and amazed atFranklins genius and thewonders of the new science ;public lecture-rooms wereopened for their perform-ance, and all Paris throngedto the rare exhibition. Theletters were translated intomany languages, and sud-denly the name of the ob-scure printer in Philadelphiabecame one of the most re-nowned in the annals ofscience. His theories wereassailed by the Abbe Nolletand a party of tlie Frenchphilosophers, but alsofound many defenders, anda large school of enthusi-astic men of science, struckby the vigor of Franklinsgenius and the novelty of his discoveries, assumed the name ofFranklinists. Still, however, Franklins most daring speculation as to the unityof the electricity of the earth and the air, which had awakened thederision of the whole Royal Society, remained untested by experiment,and the philosophers prepared, with doubt and dismay, to attempt its » Sparkss Life of Franklin, vol. v, p. Fig. 8.—Engraving of Benjamin FranklinsElectrical Machine, the Oldest ImprovedForm foe Producing Electricity for Ex-perimental Purposes. A-198 BLEYER. verification. He felt that liis fame must rest upon his success. If hecould draw down the lightning from the skies by presenting his ironpoints to the thunder-cloud, he must attain a renown that would liveforever. If he failed, by the incompleteness of his instruments or anyunlooked-for accident, he would seem to merit the scorn which Europeanphilosophers were prepared to pour upon him. Philadelphia, too, offered no convenient tower or steeple on which tofix his iron points ; while the modest inquirer was probably anxious thathis first experiment should be made with no one present to witness hispossible failure. 1 His inventive mind suggested a simple formed a common kite from a silk handkerchief stretched upontwo cros
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