 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 pages
...electricity hang down towards the earth, they will repel the electricity from the earth's surface, if it be of the same kind with their own, and will...the earth which is under the other. The pure air, at(all times negatively electric, becomes intensely so on the approach of rain, snow, wind, hail, or... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...electricity, hang down towards the earth, they will repel the electricity from the earth's surface, if it be of the same kind with their own, and will...that point of the earth which is under the other. Though the back-stroke is often sufficiently powerful to destroy life, it is never so terrible in its... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1840 - 858 pages
...electricity hang down towards the earth ; they will repel the electricity from the earth's surface, if it be of the same kind with their own, and will...one end of the cloud, the equilibrium will instantly he restored by a flash at that point of the earth which is under the other. Though the back stroke... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1844 - 512 pages
...from the earth's surface if it be of the same kind as their own, and will attract the other kind : if a discharge should suddenly take place at one end...that point of the earth •which is under the other. Though this back stroke is often sufficiently powerful to destroy life, it is never so terrible in... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...electricity hang down toward the earth : they will repel the electricity from the earth's surface, if it be of the same kind with their own, and will...that point of the earth which is under the other. Though the back stroke is often sufficiently powerful to destroy life, it is never so terrible in its... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...electricity hang down toward the earth : they will repel the electricity from the earth's surface, if it be of the same kind with their own, and will...cloud, the equilibrium will instantly be restored by a,flash at that point of the earth which is under the other. Though the back stroke is often sufficiently... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1849 - 568 pages
...electricity hang down towards the earth ; they will repel the electricity from the earth's surface, if it be of the same kind with their own, and will...that point of the earth which is under the other. Though the back stroke is often sufficiently powerful to destroy life, it is never so terrible in its... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1849 - 462 pages
...extremities of a highly charged cloud dip towards the earth, they will repel the electricity of the earth, if it be of the same kind with their own, and will...attract the other kind ; and if a discharge should take place at one end of the cloud, the equilibrium will instantly be restored by a flash from that... | |
 | 1853 - 394 pages
...with electricity, hang down towards the earth, they repel the electricity from the earth's surface, if it be of the same kind with their own, and will...that point of the earth which is under the other. Though the back-stroke is often sufficiently powerful to destroy life, it is never so terrible in its... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1869 - 618 pages
...extremities of a highly charged cloud dip towards the earth, they will repel the electricity of the earth, if it be of the same kind with their own, and will attract the other kind; and if a discharge should take place at one end of the cloud, the equilibrium will instantly be restored by a flash from that... | |
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Suppose that the two extremities of a cloud highly charged with electricity hang down towards the earth ; they will repel the electricity from the earth's surface, if it be of the same kind with their own, and will attract the other kind ; and, if a discharge... 
