 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1883 - 782 Seiten
...churches, ships, &c., from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix, on the highest points of those edifices, upright rods of iron, made sharp as a needle...and gilt to prevent rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down to the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds... | |
 | Henry W. Spang - 1883 - 76 Seiten
...lightning, by directing us to fix on the highest points of these edifices upright rods of iron, made as sharp as a needle, and gilt to prevent rusting, and from the point of these rods a wire run down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 Seiten
...churches, ships, etc., from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix, on the highest parts of those edifices, upright rods of iron made sharp as a needle,...and gilt to prevent rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds... | |
 | 1890 - 966 Seiten
...stroke of lightning by directing us to fix, on the highest parts of those edifices, upright rods of 1 iron made sharp as a needle, and gilt to prevent rusting, and from the foot of the rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds... | |
 | Charles Barnard - 1891 - 158 Seiten
...churches, ships, etc., from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix, on the highest parts of those edifices, upright rods of iron made sharp as a needle,...and gilt, to prevent rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down one of the shrouds of a... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - 1893 - 324 Seiten
...churches, ships, etc., from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix on the highest part of those edifices upright rods of iron, made sharp as a needle...and gilt to prevent rusting, and from the foot of those rods, a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds... | |
 | 1900 - 366 Seiten
...churches, ships, etc., from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix on the highest parts of those edifices upright rods of iron, made sharp as a needle,...and gilt to prevent rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground." Over the details of this protective... | |
 | Richard Gilmour - 1894 - 418 Seiten
...edifices upright rods of iron made as sharp as a needle, and gilded to prevent rusting, and extending down the outside of the building into the ground,...down round one of the shrouds of a ship, and down the side till it reaches the water. Benjamin Franklin (7), patriot, statesman, author, philosopher,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - 1894 - 592 Seiten
...churches, ships, etc., from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix, on the highest parts of those edifices, upright rods of iron made sharp as a needle,...and gilt to prevent rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds... | |
 | Park Benjamin - 1895 - 642 Seiten
...upright rods of iron made sharp as a needle, and gilt to prevent rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down the outside of the building into...down round one of the shrouds of a ship and down her side till it reaches the water ? Would not these pointed rods probably draw the electrical fire silently... | |
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... a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds of a ship, and down her side till it reaches the water? 
