The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 3 [of 3] · Benjamin Franklin
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_Galloway_, Mr, preface to his speech, iii. 163. _Garnish-money_, practice among printers of demanding it, i. 63. _Gauger_, M. his invention for fire-places, ii. 232. _Genealogy_ of the Franklin family, i. 5. _German_ stoves, advantages and disadvantages of, ii. 234. _Germany_, why the several states of, encourage foreign manufactures in preference to those of each other, iii. 118. note. _Gilding_, its properties as a conductor, i. 201. the effects of lightning and of electricity on, 229. fails as a conductor after a few shocks, 231. _Glass_, has always the same quantity of electrical fire, i. 191. possesses the whole power of giving a shock, 192, 247. in panes, when first used in an electrical experiment, 193, 194. great force in small portions of, 199. impermeable to the electric fluid, 234, 310. strongly attracts the electric fluid, 236. cannot be electrified negatively, _ibid._ its opposite surfaces, how affected, _ibid._ its component parts and pores extremely fine, 237. manner of its operation in producing electricity, _ibid._ its elasticity, to what owing, 239. thick, resists a change of the quantity of electricity of its different sides, 242. rod of, will not conduct a shock, _ibid._ when fluid, or red hot, will conduct electricity, 256. difference in its qualities, 301. error as to its pores, 302. will admit the electric fluid, when moderately heated, 345, 347. when cold retains the electric fluid, 346. experiments on warm and cold, 348. singular tube and ball of, 386.
_Glasses_, musical, described, ii. 330, _et seq._ _God_, saying in America respecting, iii. 401. _Godfrey_, Thomas, a lodger with Franklin, i. 81. a member of the Junto, 83. inventor of Hadley's quadrant, _ibid._ wishes Franklin to marry a relation of his, 95. _Gold_ and silver, remarks on exportation of, ii. 416. _Golden_ fish, an electrical device, i. 233. _Government_, free, only destroyed by corruption of manners, ii. 397. _Gout_, dialogue with that disease, iii. 499. _Grace_, Robert, member of the Junto club, i. 84, 89. _Gratitude_ of America, letter on, iii. 239. _Greasing_ the bottoms of ships, gives them more swiftness, ii. 180. _Greece_, causes of its superiority over Persia, ii. 397. _Greek_ empire, the destruction of, dispersed manufacturers over Europe, iii. 122. _Green_ and red, relation between the colours of, ii. 341. _Greenlanders_, their boats best for rowing, ii. 176. _Guadaloupe_, its value to Britain over-rated, iii. 139. _Gulph-stream_, observations on, ii. 186. whalers frequent its edges, _ibid._ long unknown to any but the American fishermen, _ibid._ how generated, 187. its properties, _ibid._ tornadoes and water-spouts attending it, accounted for, 188. how to avoid it, 197. Nantucket whalers best acquainted with it, 198. thermometrical observations on, 199. journal of a voyage across, _ibid._ _Gunpowder_, fired by electricity, i. 250. magazines of, how to secure them from lightning, 375. proposal for keeping it dry, 376.
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