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 The Magazine that Sparked Benjamin Franklin's
Interest in Electricity - 1745

Sylvanus Urban


The Gentleman's Magazine

Sylvanus Urban
April, 1745

Benjamin Franklin first became interested in electricity after his friend Peter Collinson sent him this issue of Gentleman's Magazine along with a glass tube for generating static electricity.

The issue contains a short article on  "Discoveries concerning electricity - some very surprising [and] not published before".  It was this article that launched Franklin headfirst into the wonderful new science of electricity.14 

 
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