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Letter, 'Extract of a letter concerning electricty and Beccaria's book' from Benjamin Franklin to M Deliband

Reference number: L&P/3/70

Date: 29 June 1755

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a letter concering electricity, from Mr. B. Franklin to Mons. Delibard, inclosed in a letter to Mr. Peter Collinson, F. R. S'

Read 18 December 1755

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L&P/3/70
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29 June 1755
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin, Letter, 'Extract of a letter concerning electricty and Beccaria's book' from Benjamin Franklin to M Deliband, 29 June 1755, L&P/3/70, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_70/letter-extract-of-a-letter-concerning-electricty-and-beccarias-book-from-benjamin-franklin-to-m-deliband, accessed on 12 November 2025

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