| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 552 Seiten
...came nigh enough to strike, and thereby secure us from that most sudden and terrible mischief? 21. To determine the question, whether the clouds that...top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box, (as in Fig. 9,) big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1893 - 806 Seiten
...conclusion that lightning and the electrical fire are identical. " To determine the question," he says,* "whether the clouds that contain lightning are electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to be try'd where it may be done conveniently. On the top of some high tower or steeple place a kind of centry... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1894 - 810 Seiten
...the clouds that contain lightning are electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to be try'd where it may be done conveniently. On the top of some high tower or steeple place a kind of centry box big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of the stand let an... | |
| 1847 - 662 Seiten
...the experiment by which their identity may be demonstrated. His directions are as follows : — • " On the top of some high tower, or steeple, place a kind of sentrybox, big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of the stand let an... | |
| William Sturgeon - 1842 - 274 Seiten
...electricity present, and also of placing before them a plan by which a satisfactory experiment might be made. Dr. Franklin's plan of experimenting bears...propose an experiment to be tried where it may be done conveQ niently. On the top of some high tower or steeple place a kind of sentrybox, as in Fig. 77,... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1846 - 644 Seiten
...sudden and terrible mischief? "To determine this question, whether the clouds that contain lightning be electrified or not, I would propose an experiment...top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box, big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of the stand let an... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1849 - 630 Seiten
...sudden and terrible mischief? "To determine this question, whether the clouds that contain lightning be electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to be tried, where it may he done conveniently. On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box, big enough... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 758 Seiten
...1749," the following passage occurs : — "To determine the question whether the clouds that contais lightning are electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to be tried where it can be done conveniently. On the top of some biii tower or steeple place a kind of sentry-box, big... | |
| James Parton - 1865 - 672 Seiten
...attention of European electricians when at last the paper was published. It was given in these words : l' To determine the question, whether the clouds that...high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry box, big enough to contain a man and an electric stand. From the middle of the stand let an iron rod rise... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1896 - 906 Seiten
...from Experiments and Observations made at Philadelphia, 1749," the following jxissage occurs : — " To determine the question whether the clouds that...I would propose an experiment to be tried where it can be done conveniently. On the top of some high tower or steeple place a kind of sentry-box, big... | |
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