 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 758 Seiten
...conveniently. On the top of some biii tower or steeple place a kind of sentry-box, big enough to contain i man and an electrical stand. From the middle of the stand let in iron rod rise and pass, bending out of the door, and then npri.-i: 20 feet or 30 feet, pointed very... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1896 - 906 Seiten
...where it can be done conveniently. On the top of some high tower or steeple place a kind of sentry-box, big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand....and pass, bending out of the door, and then upright 20 feet or 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 740 Seiten
...where it can be done conveniently. On the top of some high tower or steeple place a kind of sentry-box, big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand....and pass, bending out of the door, and then upright 20 feet or 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1896 - 1056 Seiten
...it can be done conveniently. On the toi» of some high tower or steeple place a kind of sentry-box, big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand....and pass, bending out of the door, and then upright 20 feet or 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1899 - 1110 Seiten
...may be done conveniently. 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 FRANKLIN'S MODEL OF "THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE-PLACE," NOW is THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. probable... | |
 | Mrs. Lillian Ione Rhoades MacDowell - 1900 - 396 Seiten
...some 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...thirty feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the elec* trical stand be kept clean and dry, a man standing on it, when such clouds are passing low, might... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 524 Seiten
...conveniently. On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of centry-box, (as in Fig. 9,) big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand....and pass bending out of the door, and then upright 20 or 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man... | |
 | Michael Francis O'Reilly (in religion Potamian), James Joseph Walsh - 1909 - 438 Seiten
...the 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...and pass, bending out of the door, and then upright 20 or 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man... | |
 | William Andrew Durgin - 1912 - 228 Seiten
...glass or other insulating material, so that any one standing thereon is insulated from the ground]. "From the middle of the stand let an iron rod rise...and pass, bending out of the door, and then upright 20 or 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1895 - 510 Seiten
...the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of " sentry box big enough to contain a man and electrical " stand. From the middle of the stand let...and pass bending out of the door and then upright 20 or " 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical " stand be kept clean and dry, a... | |
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... or 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man standing on it when such clouds are passing low, might be electrified and afford sparks, the rod drawing fire to him from a cloud. 
