Hauksbee's experiments on attrition and electricity Size:XL: 120 x 80cm 'A New Love Song only

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Monument in St James's Church

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Over a nine month period over seven hundred men worked virtually round the clock

Hauksbee's experiments on attrition and electricity Size:XL: 120 x 80cm 'A New Love Song onlyThe plate illustrates pp. 51 61, 'A continuation of the Experiments on the Attrition of Glass' and 'Some farther Experiments relating to the Electricity of Glass'. Plate VII from Physico mechanical experiments on various subjects, by Francis Hauksbee (London, 1709), presented to the Royal Society by the author on 26 October 1709. Hauksbee (ca. 1660 1713) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1705, and was the Society's Curator of Experiments