1From Benjamin Franklin to William Brownrigg, 7 November 1773 (Franklin Papers)
LS : the Royal Society Franklin’s curiosity about the interaction of oil and water had first been aroused, as he mentions in this famous letter, by an experience on shipboard in 1757, and reawakened by another in 1762. He seems to have pondered the significance of what he had observed on those occasions, but to have done nothing further until—at some time that cannot be exactly determined—he...