sentences:  The "electric fire," as it was then termed, was a subject that engrossed scientific scholars in England and on the continent of Europe, but the Philadelphia philosophers appeared to surpass all in their discoveries.In 1748, Kinnersley demonstrated that the electric fluid actually passed through water, and proved it by a trough ten feet long full of water.He also invented the "magical picture" referred to by the Abbé Nollet, and produced the ringing of chimes of bells.