Day: January 27, 2012

Front facade of Houghton Library

You’ve Got Mail: A Curious Discovery in Electricity

The curious discovery was related by Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) to Jan Ingenhousz (1730-1799) in this week’s letter, which is from Houghton’s Autograph File. Ingenhousz was physician to the court of Austria at the time, and a fellow of the Royal Society who later settled in England.  Franklin was in London for his extended second trip…