IT has been shown that a body charged with electricity may be discharged by means of the rays from a Röntgen bulb. I find, also, that an electrified body is rapidly discharged by the influence of a ...

Finally, someone decided to answer the question that nobody was asking: what if [Benjamin Franklin] had had a drone rather than a kite? Granted, [Jay Bowles] didn’t fly his electricity-harvesting ...

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