HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY 



(THE INTELLECTUAL RISE IN ELECTRICITY) 



FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE DAYS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 



BY 



PARK BENJAMIN, Ph.D., L.L.B. 



Mem. Am. Inst. Elec. Engrs. ; Assoc, Mem. Soc. Naval Architects and Marine 



Engrs. ; Foreign Member Br. Inst. of Patent Agents ; Editor-in-Chief 



Appleton s Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics and Modern 



Mechanism ; A uthor of The Age of Electricitv 



The Voltaic Cell, etc.^ etc. 



NEW YORK 



JOHN WILEY & SONS 



53 East Tenth Street 



1898 



