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Diagram of a waterspout illustrating an article by Benjamin Franklin. Items in the image are numbered for identification in adjacent article.

Source Title: The royal American magazine, or Universal repository of instruction and amusement. For September, 1774. Source place of publication: Boston. Source publisher: Printed by and sold at Greenleaf's Printing-Office in Union-street ...

"Clarence Brigham attributes this maritime print to James Callendar. The text and this plate were taken from Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and observations on electricity, London, 1774, p. 224-241. The plate is on p. 232. Published first by Isaiah Thomas and then Joseph Greenleaf in Boston, this magazine was produced from January 1774 until April 1775 when the war put an end to publication."
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