Benjamin Franklin to Ebenezer Kinnersley, March 2, 1752

March 2, 1752

Sir,

I thank you for the experiments communicated. 7 I sent immediately for your brimstone globe, in order to make the trials you desired, but found it wanted centers, which I have not time now to supply; but the first leisure I will get it fitted for use, try the experiments, and acquaint you with the result.

In the mean time I suspect, that the different attractions and repulsions you observed, proceeded rather from the greater or smaller quantities of the fire you obtained from different bodies, than from its being of a different kind , or having a different direction . In haste I am, &c.

B. Franklin