id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6139 Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia .html text/html 26775 3079 68 Franklin described the experiment in the Pennsylvania Gazette on October 19, 1752,[66][67] without mentioning that he himself had performed it.[68] This account was read to the Royal Society on December 21 and printed as such in the Philosophical Transactions.[69] Joseph Priestley published an account with additional details in his 1767 History and Present Status of Electricity. Among his associates in France was Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau—a French Revolutionary writer, orator and statesman who in early 1791 would be elected president of the National Assembly.[164] In July 1784, Franklin met with Mirabeau and contributed anonymous materials that the Frenchman used in his first signed work: Considerations sur l'ordre de Cincinnatus.[165] The publication was critical of the Society of the Cincinnati, established in the United States. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6139.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6139.txt