 | Louis Arthur Holman - 1916 - 134 Seiten
...points, and suggested a method of ascertaining positively that they were the same in this particular. "I would propose an experiment, to be tried where...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 iron rod rise,... | |
 | William Jackson Humphreys - 1920 - 690 Seiten
...and lightning " ; and by many others. (&) The devising by Franklin,183 in 1/49, of a simple means " to determine the question, whether the clouds that contain lightning are electrified or not." (c) The proof, May 10, 1752, by Dalibard134 (following "" Brand's " Antiquities," Castor and Pollux.... | |
 | 1928 - 640 Seiten
...and that of lightning be the same, as I have endeavored to shew at large, in a former paper. Also: To determine the question, whether the clouds that...electrified or not, I would propose an experiment. And again: I say, if these things are so, may not the knowledge of this power of points be of use to... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1895 - 510 Seiten
...Peter Collinson on July 29, 1750 (Experitnents, p. 54, Works, Vol. I., p. 216), writes as follows:— " To determine the question whether the clouds that...electrified or not, I would propose an " experiment to be try'd when it may be done conveniently. " On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of... | |
 | Theodore Hornberger - 50 Seiten
...before it came nigh enough to strike, and thereby secure us from the most sudden and terrible mischief? "To determine the question, whether the clouds that...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... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1896 - 1058 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. Oii the top of some high tower or steeple place a kind of sentry-box, big... | |
 | Joseph F. Keithley - 1999 - 264 Seiten
...action of a pointed conductor, Franklin proposed to draw down the lightning (Figure 7.2, "Fig." IX): "On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of a sentry box big enough to contain a man and an electrical (insulating) stand. From the middle of the... | |
 | James Campbell - 1999 - 322 Seiten
...the hypothesis.55 Franklin's proposal was dated 29 July 1750. He writes that to determine "[wjhether the Clouds that contain Lightning are electrified or not, I would propose an Experiment to be try'd where it may be done conveniently." He thought that the experiment would not yet be 'convenient'... | |
 | James Campbell - 1999 - 316 Seiten
...no buildings that he thought were sufficiently tall. The experiment was proposed to run as follows: On the Top of some high Tower or Steeple, place a Kind of Sentry Box big enough to contain a Man and an [insulated] electrical Stand. From the Middle of the Stand let an... | |
 | Tom Tucker - 2009 - 304 Seiten
...inclement weather. Franklin writes: To determine the question, whether the clouds that contain Eghtning are electrified or not, I would propose an experiment...high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry box big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand [an electrically insulated platform]. From the... | |
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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. 
