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beamjockey ([personal profile] beamjockey) wrote2005-08-25 12:00 pm

A Shocking Omission

I've just conceived a desire to look at Benjamin Franklin's Experiments and Observations on Electricity, which you'd think would be on the Web someplace, being in the public domain and all. But I can't find a copy.

(Ben's tercentenary is coming up, which reminds me that I've never read his Autobiography, and I really should before 17 January 2006, don't you think? That book, at least, is available from Project Gutenberg.)

OT coz I don't have your email

[identity profile] von-krag.livejournal.com 2005-08-25 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
At Minicon we spoke on turbo-compounding a IC motor, here's VW's take on it
http://www.autoweek.com/news.cms?newsId=103048 I think this will work really nicely on smaller gas engines but be spectacular on a common rail diesel. I would have sent this by emailbut...

[identity profile] liveavatar.livejournal.com 2005-08-25 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Really, Benjamin Franklin's tercentenary? Good to know (thinking about next year's historical science fair).