If any danger to the man should be apprehended (though I think there would be none), let him stand on the floor of his box, and now and then bring near to the rod the loop of a wire that has one end fastened to the leads, he holding it by a wax handle... A History of Science - Page 291by Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 227 pagesFull view - About this book
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 552 pages
...electrified and afford sparks, the rod drawing fire to him from a cloud. If any danger to the man should be apprehended (though I think there would be none),...electrified, will strike from the rod to the wire, and not affect him. 22. Before I leave this subject of lightning, I may . mention some other similarities between... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1893 - 806 pages
...electrified and afford sparks, the rod drawing fire to him from a cloud. If any danger to the man should be apprehended (though I think there would be none),...electrified, will strike from the rod to the wire and not affect him." On the loth of May, i 752, M. D'Alibard, the translator of Franklin's letters lo Collinson,... | |
| William Sturgeon - 1842 - 274 pages
...electrified and afford sparks, the rod drawing fire to him from the cloud. If any danger to the man should be apprehended (though I think there would be none)...electrified, will strike from the rod to the wire, and not affect him." The plan for this grand experiment being made generally known throughout Europe and America,... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1846 - 644 pages
...and afford sparks, the rod drawing fire to him from a cloud. If any danger to the man be apprehended, let him stand on the floor of his box, and now and...electrified, will strike from the rod to the wire, and not affect him."* When this and other papers by Franklin, illustrating similar views, were sent to London,... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1846 - 664 pages
...and aflbrd sparks, the rod drawing fire to him from a cloud. If any danger to the man be apprehended, let him stand on the floor of his box, and now and...the leads, he holding it by a wax handle ; so the sparH, if the rod is electrified, will strike from the rod to the wire, and not aflect him."e When... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 758 pages
...electrified and afford sparks, the rod drawni fire to him from a cloud. " If any danger to the man should be apprehended (though I think there would be none), let him stand on the floor of his box, and DO» and then bring near to the rod the loop of a wire that has one eu fastened to the leads, he holding... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1856 - 726 pages
...and afford sparks, the rod drawing fire to him from a cloud. If any danger to the man be apprehended, let him stand on the floor of his box, and now and then bring near to the rod the loop of a »ire that has one end fastened to the leads, he holding it by a wax handle ; so the sparks, if the... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1896 - 906 pages
...electrified and afford sparks, the rod drawing fire to him from a cloud. " If any danger to the man should be apprehended (though I think there would be none),...electrified, will strike from the rod to the wire, and not affect him." 2 The experiment suggested by Franklin was successfully performed in Marly (France), by... | |
| Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 pages
...the rod drawing fire to him from a cloud. If any danger to the man should be apprehended (though 1 think there would be none), let him stand on the floor...fastened to the leads, he holding it by a wax handle; BO the sparks, if the rod is electrified, will strike from the rod to the wire, aud not affect him."... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1885 - 320 pages
...electrified and afford sparks, the rod drawing fire to him from a cloud. If any danger to the man should be apprehended (though I think there would be none),...electrified, will strike from the rod to the wire, and not affect him." The Royal Society " did not think these papers worth printing " ! But, happily, Collinson... | |
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