Paper, 'An account of an experiment touching an endeavour to produce light thro a metallick body under the circumstances of a vacuum and attrition' by Francis Hauksbee Hauksbee describes an experiment attempting to produce light through a metallic body under a vacuum and attrition. He writes: 'It may be remembred, what success I had in producing Light through Bodies, such as Sealing Wax, Pitch, and common Sulphur; which gave me some probability, that under the same Circumstances I might like wife make some such Discovery thro' a Metallick Body.' Subject: Physics Read to the Royal Society on 6 December 1711 Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of an experiment, concerning an endeavour to produce Light thro' a Metallick Body, under the Cirumstances of a vaccum and attrition. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S' 1711