Produced by David Widger INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Compiled by David Widger CONTENTS ## THE COMPLETE WORKS FRANKLIN, Vol. 1 ## THE COMPLETE WORKS FRANKLIN, Vol. 2 ## THE COMPLETE WORKS FRANKLIN, Vol. 3 ## MEMOIRS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Vol. 1 ## MEMOIRS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Vol. 2 ## AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ## BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, SELECTIONS ## AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FRANKLIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: FIRST BALLOONS EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON ELECTRICITY FRANKLIN'S WAY TO WEALTH TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES THE COMPLETE WORKS, OF THE LATE DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Now First Collected And Arranged: With Memoirs Of His Early Life, Written By Himself. In Three Volumes. Vol. I. (of III) 1806 CONTENTS Page. LIFE of Dr. FRANKLIN 1 LETTERS AND PAPERS ON ELECTRICITY. Introductory Letter. 169 Wonderful effect of points.�Positive and negative electricity.�Electrical kiss.�Counterfeit spider.�Simple and commodious electrical machine. 170 Observations on the Leyden bottle, with experiments proving the different electrical state of its different surfaces. 179 Further experiments confirming the preceding observations.�Leyden bottle analysed.�Electrical battery.�Magical Picture.�Electrical wheel or jack.�Electrical feast. 187 Observations and suppositions, towards forming a new hypothesis, for explaining the several phenomena of thunder-gusts. 203 Introductory letter to some additional papers. 216 Opinions and conjectures, concerning the properties and effects of the electrical matter, and the means of preserving buildings, ships, &c. from lightning, arising from experiments and observations made at Philadelphia, 1749.�Golden fish.�Extraction of effluvial virtues by electricity impracticable. 217 Additional experiments: proving that the Leyden bottle has no more electrical fire in it when charged, than before: nor less when discharged: that in discharging, the fire does not issue from the wire and the coating at the same time, as some have thought, but that the coating always receives what is discharged by the wire, or an equal quantity: the outer surface being always in a negative state of electricity, when the inner surface is in a positive state. 245 [xii] Accumulation of the electrical fire proved to be in the electrified glass.�Effect of lightning on the needle of compasses, explained.�Gunpowder fired by the electric flame. 247 Unlimited nature of the electric force. 250 The terms, electric per se, and non-electric, improper.�New relation between metals and water.�Effects of air in electrical experiments.�Experiment for discovering more of the qualities of the electric fluid. 252 Mistake, that only metals and water were conductors, rectified.�Supposition of a region of electric fire above our atmosphere.�Theorem concerning light.�Poke-weed a cure for cancers. 256