 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 552 Seiten
...the rod the loop of a wire that has one end fastened to the leads, he holding it by a wax handle ; so the sparks, if the rod is electrified, will 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 - 1893 - 806 Seiten
...the rod the loop of a wire that has one end fastened to the leads, he holding it by a wax handle ; so the sparks, if the rod is electrified, will 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 - 1894 - 810 Seiten
...the rod the loop of a wire that has one end fastened to the leads, he holding it by a wax handle; so the sparks, if the rod is electrified, will 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 - 1842 - 274 Seiten
...the rod the loop of a wire that has one end fastened to the leads, he holding it by a wax handle : so the sparks, if the rod is electrified, will 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... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1846 - 644 Seiten
...the rod the loop of a wire that has one end fastened to the leads, he holding it by a wax handle ; so the sparks, if the rod is electrified, will strike from the rod to the wire, and not affect him."* When this and other papers by Franklin, illustrating similar views, were sent to London, and read before... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1846 - 664 Seiten
...loop of a wire that has one end fastened to the leads, he holding it by a wax handle ; so the sparH, if the rod is electrified, will strike from the rod to the wire, and not aflect him."e When this and other papers by Franklin, illustrating similar views, were sent to London,... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 758 Seiten
...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, will strike from the rod to the wire, and ь ; affect him." * The experiment suggested by Franklin was successfully perfora ó in Marly (France),... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 668 Seiten
...the rod the loop of a wire that has one end fastened to the leads, he holding it by a wax handle ; so the sparks, if the rod is electrified, will strike from the rod to the wire, and not affect him." The reader may be interested to know by what steps Franklin arrived at his lightning hypothesis. A... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1896 - 906 Seiten
...the rod the loop of a wire that has one end fastened to the leads, he holding it by a wax handle ; so the sparks, if the rod is electrified, will 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 Seiten
...the rod, the loop of a wire that has one end 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." America then furnishing no such suitable place for the experiment, it was deferred,... | |
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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;... 
