 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1837 - 552 pages
...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 now and...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 the effects... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Learned institutions and societies - 1893 - 806 pages
...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 now and...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, placed... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Learned institutions and societies - 1894 - 810 pages
...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 now and...strike from the rod to the wire and not affect him." On the loth of May, 1 752, M. D'Alibard, the translator of Franklin's letters to Collinson, placed... | |
 | William Sturgeon - Electricity - 1842 - 274 pages
...from the 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 now and...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, many philosophers... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1896 - 758 pages
...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 it by a wax handle ; so the spark-. if the rod is electrified,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Science - 1896 - 906 pages
...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 now and...strike from the rod to the wire, and not affect him." 2 The experiment suggested by Franklin was successfully performed in Marly (France), by D'Alibard,... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 pages
...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 of his box, and now and...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 - Inventions - 1885 - 320 pages
...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 now and...strike from the rod to the wire, and not affect him." The Royal Society " did not think these papers worth printing " ! But, happily, Collinson printed them,... | |
 | New England - 1891 - 850 pages
...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 now and...strike from the rod to the wire and not affect him." The French publication of Franklin's letters led to the curious result that his suggested plan was... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - Biography & Autobiography - 1893 - 324 pages
...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 now and...strike from the rod to the wire and not affect him." A friend once asked Franklin how he came to hit upon such an idea. His reply was to quote an extract... | |
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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... 
