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Draw The Lightning Down
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Author : Michael Brian Schiffer
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-03-02
Draw The Lightning Down written by Michael Brian Schiffer and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Annotation A lively and entertaining study of early electrical technology, this book brings to life the technologies and inventors--most notably Benjamin Franklin--who forged the way for our modern electrical world.
Draw The Lightning Down
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Author : Michael Brian Schiffer
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-10-14
Draw The Lightning Down written by Michael Brian Schiffer and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-14 with History categories.
Most of us know—at least we've heard—that Benjamin Franklin conducted some kind of electrical experiment with a kite. What few of us realize—and what this book makes powerfully clear—is that Franklin played a major role in laying the foundations of modern electrical science and technology. This fast-paced book, rich with historical details and anecdotes, brings to life Franklin, the large international network of scientists and inventors in which he played a key role, and their amazing inventions. We learn what these early electrical devices—from lights and motors to musical and medical instruments—looked like, how they worked, and what their utilitarian and symbolic meanings were for those who invented and used them. Against the fascinating panorama of life in the eighteenth century, Michael Brian Schiffer tells the story of the very beginnings of our modern electrical world. The earliest electrical technologies were conceived in the laboratory apparatus of physicists; because of their surprising and diverse effects, however, these technologies rapidly made their way into many other communities and activities. Schiffer conducts us from community to community, showing how these technologies worked as they were put to use in public lectures, revolutionary experiments in chemistry and biology, and medical therapy. This story brings to light the arcane and long-forgotten inventions that made way for many modern technologies—including lightning rods (Franklin's invention), cardiac stimulation, xerography, and the internal combustion engine—and richly conveys the complex relationships among science, technology, and culture.
Draw Down The Lightning
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Author : Ben Bridges
language : en
Publisher: Linford
Release Date : 2008
Draw Down The Lightning written by Ben Bridges and has been published by Linford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Large print books categories.
Carter O'Brien was greased lightning with a gun. That's why the greenhorn wanted to hire him. The trouble was, he had been sworn to secrecy about his own mysterious mission. Someone else knew though: two attempts had already been made on the greenhorn's life. O'Brien would soon face his toughest challenge. . .and get the surprise of his life.
Game Of Strength And Storm
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Author : Rachel Menard
language : en
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
Release Date : 2022-06-07
Game Of Strength And Storm written by Rachel Menard and has been published by North Star Editions, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-07 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Teenagers of Olympia Gen and Castor race to be the first to complete six nearly impossible challenges to obtain their greatest desire. Only one will win. The other walks away with nothing—if she walks away at all.
Memoirs Of Benjamin Franklin
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Author : William Duane
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2022-10-25
Memoirs Of Benjamin Franklin written by William Duane and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-25 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
Memoirs Of Benjamin Franklin
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Author : Benjamin Franklin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1859
Memoirs Of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1859 with United States categories.
Experiments And Observations On Electricity Made At Philadelphia In America To Which Are Added Letters And Papers On Philosophical Subjects The Whole Corrected Methodized And Now First Collected Into One Volume Etc Fourth Edition Edited By Peter Collinson
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Author : Benjamin Franklin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1774
Experiments And Observations On Electricity Made At Philadelphia In America To Which Are Added Letters And Papers On Philosophical Subjects The Whole Corrected Methodized And Now First Collected Into One Volume Etc Fourth Edition Edited By Peter Collinson written by Benjamin Franklin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1774 with categories.
The Works Of Benjamin Franklin Containing Several Political And Historical Tracts Not Included In Any Former Edition And Many Letters Official And Private Not Hitherto Published With Notes And A Life Of The Author
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Author : Benjamin Franklin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1837
The Works Of Benjamin Franklin Containing Several Political And Historical Tracts Not Included In Any Former Edition And Many Letters Official And Private Not Hitherto Published With Notes And A Life Of The Author written by Benjamin Franklin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1837 with Statesmen categories.
The First Scientific American
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Author : Joyce Chaplin
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2007-08-02
The First Scientific American written by Joyce Chaplin and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-02 with History categories.
Famous, fascinating Benjamin Franklin -- he would be neither without his accomplishments in science. Joyce Chaplin's authoritative biography considers all of Franklin's work in the sciences, showing how, during the rise and fall of the first British empire, science became central to public culture and therefore to Franklin's success. Having demonstrated in his earliest experiments and observations that he could master nature, Franklin showed the world that he was uniquely suited to solve problems in every realm. In the famous adage, Franklin "snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from the tyrants" -- in that order. The famous kite and other experiments with electricity were only part of Franklin's accomplishments. He charted the Gulf Stream, made important observations on meteorology, and used the burgeoning science of "political arithmetic" to make unprecedented statements about America's power. Even as he stepped onto the world stage as an illustrious statesman and diplomat in the years leading up to the American Revolution, his fascination with nature was unrelenting. Franklin was the first American whose "genius" for science qualified him as a genius in political affairs. It is only through understanding Franklin's full engagement with the sciences that we can understand this great Founding Father and the world he shaped.
The Recovery Of Historical Law
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Author : Friedrich Julius Stahl
language : en
Publisher: WordBridge Publishing
Release Date : 2021-02-20
The Recovery Of Historical Law written by Friedrich Julius Stahl and has been published by WordBridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-20 with Law categories.
As the world reels from crisis to crisis, the most serious one seems to draw the least attention. And that is the crisis of the Western mind. The seeds of radical subjectivism sown at the time of a previous such crisis, chronicled in Paul Hazard’s Crisis of the European Mind, have now borne fruit, fruit of such stupendous magnitude that they threaten to drag us down into the depths of cultural despair. In The Rise and Fall of Natural Law, this descent into the maelstrom was chronicled from its origin to its inevitable conclusion – at least, in the world of intellect. Culture lags intellect, but it is never insulated from it. Ideas do have consequences. The intellectual counterpart to our cultural crisis already played itself out 200 years ago. The crisis of the European mind, by which intellectual culture shifted from Revelation to Reason, found its fitting conclusion in the work of the ultimate solipsist, Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Fichte’s focus on enthusiastic conviction and the primacy of the subjective makes him the prophet of the modern world. Indeed, his orientation has now triumphed for all to see. His story, and the stories of those leading up to him – the leading characters in “the Rise and Fall of Natural Law” – are crucial to understanding the genesis of the modern world. But that is not the end of the story, for history goes on. That spot, precisely where the first half of Stahl’s history of legal philosophy leaves off, is where the second half picks up. The Recovery of Historical Law narrates the attempts to overcome this radical subjectivism and establish a functioning social order in which the ideal matches up with the real, the theory is in harmony with the practice. After discussing the work of Locke, Montesquieu, Constant, and the Doctrinaires, all of whom functioned fully within the framework of autonomous natural law while attempting to mitigate it, Stahl reveals the hero of the story: Friedrich Schelling. It was Schelling who initiated the gargantuan task of reorienting philosophy away from subjectivism and back toward objective reality. Stahl characterizes this as a “Samsonesque act” whereby Schelling “lifted the temple of the previous philosophy off of its pillars and buried the whole army of enemies, himself included, under its ruins.” For one thing, this explains the cover illustration, “Samson Destroying the Philistine Temple.” For another, it intimates how Schelling, like Moses, stood at the entry to the Promised Land without entering in. Schelling’s philosophy is an exercise in pantheism, an orientation from which he struggled to free himself later in life. And in fact, Hegel, his great fellow laborer in so-called “speculative philosophy,” took that pantheism and turned it into a mighty system in its own right. A rabbit trail that carried many into another dead end, one with which we wrestle today: “conscious” or “woke” big government. But that is not the end of the story. Schelling’s first fruits were recovered by the Historical School of Jurisprudence, led by Friedrich Carl von Savigny. Here the work of Counter-Revolutionaries such as Joseph de Maistre and Edmund Burke was carried forward to bear fruit for jurisprudence. And this is the foundation for Stahl’s own system, as contained in Volume II: The Doctrine of Law and State on the Basis of the Christian World-View. It is on this basis that the laborious task to reconstruct Western civilization can begin. And not a moment too soon.