 | Robert Marion La Follette - 1906 - 532 Seiten
...letter of July 29, 1750, 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... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 484 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...high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box, (as in Fig. 9,) big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of the stand let... | |
 | Michael Francis O'Reilly (in religion Potamian), James Joseph Walsh - 1909 - 438 Seiten
...(1749.) In writing to Collinson in July, 1750, he tells his London friend how the experiment may be made: "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... | |
 | William Andrew Durgin - 1912 - 228 Seiten
...made. A year later he outlined the necessary experiment in a letter to his English friend Collinson. 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'' [a stool with feet made of... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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Fig. 9,) big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of the stand let an iron rod rise and pass bending out of the door, and then upright twenty or thirty feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean... 
