 | Theodore Hornberger - 50 Seiten
...may 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 or 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1896 - 1058 Seiten
...it can be done conveniently. Oii 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 let an iron rod rise arid pass, bending out of the door, and then upright 20 feet or 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1896 - 1064 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. From the middle of the stund let an iron rod rise and pass, bending out of the door, and then upright 20 feet or 30 feet,... | |
 | James Campbell - 1999 - 322 Seiten
...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...and pass bending out of the Door, and then upright 20 or 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the End. If the Electric Stand be kept clean and dry, a Man standing... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2004 - 628 Seiten
...detailed his proposed experiment: 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....From the middle of the stand, let an iron rod rise . . . upright 20 or 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and... | |
 | Ioan James - 2004 - 420 Seiten
...may be tried out 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....rod rise and pass bending out of the door, and then pass upright 20 or 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and... | |
 | Len Fisher - 2004 - 278 Seiten
...The man was to stand in a "kind of sentry-box" on a high tower or a steeple, which had an iron rod "pass bending out of the door and then upright twenty or thirty feet, pointed very sharp at the end." The job of the man was to wait until a low cloud full of lightning came past, and then to hold his... | |
 | Janet Benge, Geoff Benge - 2005 - 214 Seiten
...decide the matter. "On the top of some high tower or steeple," he wrote, "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 or 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry a man standing... | |
 | David Lindsay - 2005 - 419 Seiten
...are electrified or not, I would propose an Experiment to be try'd where it may be done conveniently. 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2006 - 317 Seiten
...Lightning Are Electrified, 175o 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 or 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the End. If the Electrical Stand be kept clean and dry, a Man... | |
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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. 
