 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1837 - 552 pages
...conveniently. On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box, (as in Fig. 9,) big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand....sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man standing on it, when such clouds are passing low, might be electrified and afford... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Learned institutions and societies - 1893 - 806 pages
...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....sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man, standing on it when such clouds are passing low, might be electrified and afford... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Learned institutions and societies - 1894 - 810 pages
...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....sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man, standing on it when such clouds are passing low, might be electrified and afford... | |
 | Methodist Church - 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...sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man standing on * Essays and Correspondence, p. 48; see also Lardner's Lectures, p.... | |
 | William Sturgeon - Electricity - 1842 - 274 pages
...conveQ niently. On the top of some high tower or steeple place a kind of sentrybox, as in Fig. 77, big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand....sharp at the " end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man standing on it when such clouds are passing low, might be electrified and afford... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1896 - 758 pages
...sentry-box, big enough to contain i man and an electrical stand. From the middle of the stand let in iron rod rise and pass, bending out of the door, and then npri.-i: 20 feet or 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electriol stand be kept clean and... | |
 | James Parton - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 668 pages
...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 iron rod...sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man standing on it, when such clouds are passing low, might be electrified and afford... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Science - 1896 - 906 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...and pass, bending out of the door, and then upright 20 feet or 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 416 pages
...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 iron rod...sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man standing on it, when such clouds are passing low, might be electrified and afford... | |
 | New England - 1891 - 836 pages
...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....sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man standing on it, when such clouds are passing low, might be electrified and afford... | |
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... feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man standing on it, when such clouds are passing low, might be electrified and afford sparks, the rod drawing fire to him from a cloud. 
