 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 Seiten
...the identity of electricity and lightning, and had indicated a method of determining the question. " On the top of 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... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1885 - 320 Seiten
...before it came nigh enough to strike, and thereby secure us from that most sudden and terrible mischief? "To determine the question whether the clouds that...top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of . IO8 STORIES OF INVENTION. sentry-box, big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the... | |
 | 1891 - 836 Seiten
...letter of July 29, 1850, Franklin gave the complete details of a plan for making the test. He says : "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... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - 1893 - 332 Seiten
...immediately arrested the attention of European electricians when the paper was published. It was in these words : "To determine the question, whether the clouds...top of 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... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - 1895 - 330 Seiten
...immediately arrested the attention of European electricians when the paper was published. It was in these words : "To determine the question, whether the clouds...top of 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... | |
 | Park Benjamin - 1895 - 638 Seiten
...most sudden and terrible mischief? "To determine the question, whether the clouds that contain the lightning are electrified or not, I would propose...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... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1896 - 1056 Seiten
...arising from experiments and observations made at Philadelphia, 1749," the following passage 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 toi» of some high tower or steeple place a kind of sentry-box, big... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 740 Seiten
...arising from Experiments and Observations made at Philadelphia, 1749," the following passage 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... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 Seiten
...stroke, or, if a stroke, the wire would have conducted it all into the sea without damage to the ship." " To determine the question, whether the clouds that...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... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1899 - 352 Seiten
...this ? Let the experiment be made." By the action of points he proposed to draw down the lightning. " On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box (as in Fig. 13), big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of... | |
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To determine the question whether the clouds that contain lightning are electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to be tried where it may be done conveniently. 
