The History and Present State of Electricity: With Original Experiments, Volume 2C. Bathurst, and T. Lowndes ... J. Rivington, and J. Johnson ... S. Crowder, G. Robinson, and R. Baldwin ... T. Becket, and T. Cadell, 1775 - Electricity - 503 pages |
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