 To determine the question, whether the clouds that contain lightning are electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to be tried where it may be done conveniently.  A History of Science - Page 291by Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 227 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - 1895 - 330 pages
..."To determine the question, whether the clouds that contain lightning are electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to be tried where it may be...of sentry-box, big enough to contain a man and an electric stand. From the middle of the stand let an iron rod rise and pass, bending out of the door,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1899 - 1110 pages
...To determine the question, whether the clouds that contain lightning are electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to be tried where it may be...electrical stand. From the middle of the stand let FRANKLIN'S MODEL OF "THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE-PLACE," NOW is THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. probable... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1899 - 352 pages
...this ? Let the experiment be made." By the action of points he proposed to draw down the lightning. " On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box (as in Fig. 13), big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of the stand... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1899 - 340 pages
...this ? Let the experiment be made." By the action of points he proposed to draw down the lightning. " On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box (as in Fig. 13), big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of the stand... | |
 | Mrs. Lillian Ione Rhoades MacDowell - 1900 - 396 pages
...electricity and lightning are identical. To prove this fact he proposed the following experiment : " On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry box, big enough to contain a man and an electric stand. From the middle of the stand let an... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 524 pages
...the clouds that contain lightning are 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 centry-box, (as in Fig. 9,) big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of... | |
 | Robert Marion La Follette - 1906 - 532 pages
...that contain lightning are electrified or not, 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 enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of the stand let an... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 484 pages
...To determine the question, whether the clouds that contain lightning are electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to be tried where it may be...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 pages
...(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 pages
...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... | |
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