Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… others showed demonstrations of mechanics in coffeehouses. Later, Benjamin Martin commercialized experiments with static electricity, and Joseph Priestley and his associates introduced new gases in public lectures. Experiments were both … and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750 (Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 123. The effects of static electricity were among the phenomena translated from the circles of scientific virtuosi to a wider audience. Desaguliers … those who showed electrical experiments in public lectures. In the early 1740s, according to the Gentleman’s Magazine , electricity became ‘the subject in vogue'. 4 Electricity—identified as a fluid or ‘fire’—was generated by a machine in …
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