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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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Details of experiments to show electrical attraction

01 January 1729 Sender: Stephen Gray Reference number: EL/G1/59
1732

Experiments to show electricity - water as a conductor

20 January 1732 Sender: Stephen Gray Reference number: EL/G1/60

Further experiments to show electrical attraction A table of the substances used in the experiments is attached

07 June 1732 Sender: Stephen Gray Reference number: EL/G1/61

Experiments to show electricity

15 October 1732 Sender: Stephen Gray Reference number: EL/G1/62
1733

Concerning experiments to show electrical attraction

06 February 1733 Sender: Stephen Gray Reference number: EL/G1/63

Account of the eclipse of the sun observed by himself at Norton Court, Kent, and by Granville Wheler at Otterden Place, Kent

19 May 1733 Sender: Stephen Gray Reference number: EL/G1/64
1735

Experiments to show electrical attraction with animate or inanimate bodies which produced light

28 January 1735 Sender: Stephen Gray Reference number: EL/G1/65

An account of some trial experiments relating to electricity - possibility of wood and a human body as conductors Further thoughts on water as a conductor

09 June 1735 Sender: Stephen Gray Reference number: EL/G2/32