 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.  Bay State Monthly - Page 321891Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 552 pages
...came nigh enough to strike, and thereby secure us from that most sudden and terrible mischief? 21. To determine the question, whether the clouds that...I would propose an experiment to be tried where it may be done conveniently. On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box, (as... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1893 - 806 pages
...conclusion that lightning and the electrical fire are identical. " To determine the question," he says,* "whether 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... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1894 - 810 pages
...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 big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of the stand let an... | |
 | 1847 - 662 pages
...the experiment by which their identity may be demonstrated. His directions are as follows : — • " On the top of some high tower, or steeple, place a kind of sentrybox, big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of the stand let an... | |
 | William Sturgeon - 1842 - 274 pages
...plan of experimenting bears date 1749, and the following description of it is in his own words :— " To determine the question whether the clouds that...I would propose an experiment to be tried where it may be done conveQ niently. On the top of some high tower or steeple place a kind of sentrybox, as... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1846 - 644 pages
...sudden and terrible mischief? "To determine this question, whether the clouds that contain lightning be electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to be tried, where it may be done conveniently. On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box, big... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1849 - 630 pages
...contain lightning be electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to be tried, where it may he 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... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 758 pages
...1749," the following passage occurs : — "To determine the question whether the clouds that contais lightning are electrified or not, I would propose...where it can be done conveniently. On the top of some biii tower or steeple place a kind of sentry-box, big enough to contain i man and an electrical stand.... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 668 pages
...attention of European electricians when at last the paper was published. It was given in these words : " To determine the question, whether the clouds that...I would propose an experiment to be tried where it may be done conveniently. On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry box, big... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1896 - 906 pages
...from Experiments and Observations made at Philadelphia, 1749," the following jxissage occurs : — " To determine the question whether the clouds that...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... | |
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