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Excerpt from The Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar: For the Year of Our Lord 1821, and the Forty-Fifth of American Independence; Containing Civil, Judicial, Ecclesiastical, and Military Lists in Massachusetts Enectntcity, first idea of it given by two globes of brimstone, 1467. Electric stroke discovered at Leyden, 1746 first known that it would set fire to spirits, 1756. The reentity of electric fire and lightning, discovered by Doctor Franklin, who thereupon invented a method of securing buildings from thunder storms, 1757. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.