電気

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付記

フランクリン氏――電気の発明者。 この高名なる学者は、幾度も世界を航海したのち、 サンドイッチ諸島にて死去し、 食人族に食い尽くされ、 遺骸の一片すら残らなかった。 電気は今後、芸術や産業において 重要な役割を担うだろう。 その経済的応用はいまだ未解決だが、 実験はすでに示している―― ガス灯よりも街路電車を走らせ、 馬よりも強い光を放つことを。

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Original

The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. It is the same thing as lightning, and its famous attempt to strike Dr. Franklin is one of the most picturesque incidents in that great and good man's career. The memory of Dr. Franklin is justly held in great reverence, particularly in France, where a waxen effigy of him was recently on exhibition, bearing the following touching account of his life and services to science:

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Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered. Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas jet and give more light than a horse.