| American Philosophical Society - 1893 - 806 Seiten
..." If those things are so [/'. <?., 'if the fire of electricity and that of lightning be the same'] may not the knowledge of this power of points be of...to mankind in preserving houses, churches, ships, etc., from the stroke of lightning by directing us to fix on the highest points of those edifices upright... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1894 - 810 Seiten
...says: " If those things are so [ie, 'if the fire of electricity and that of lightning be the same'] may not the knowledge of this power of points be of...to mankind in preserving houses, churches, ships, etc., from the stroke of lightning by directing us to fix on the highest points of those edifices upright... | |
| 1842 - 748 Seiten
...fire, it cannot, and the punch is thereby secured from the stroke : — I say, if these things are so, may not the knowledge of this power of points be of...to mankind in preserving houses, churches, ships, ike., from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix, on tli£ highest parts of those edifices,... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1846 - 664 Seiten
...fire, it cannot, and the punch is thereby secured from the stroke : / say, if these things are so, may not the knowledge of this power of points be of...to mankind in preserving houses, churches, ships, of c., from the stroke of lightning, by directing us toßx, on the highest parts of those edißces,... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1846 - 628 Seiten
...fire, it cannot, and the punch is thereby secured from the stroke : / say, if these things are so, may not the knowledge of this power of points be of use to mankind m preserving houses, churches, ships, ¿jc.,from the stroke of lightning, by directiig us to ßx, on... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1849 - 630 Seiten
...fire, it cannot, and the punch is thereby secured from the stroke : I say, if these things are so, may not the knowledge of this power of points be of use to mankind in pifserving houses, churches, s/iips, &fc.,from the stroke of lightning, by direct' ing us to fix, on... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 Seiten
...conductors, or " lightningrods," for the protection of buildings. " If these things be so," wrote he — " ed, points of those edifices, upright rods of iron made sharp as a needle, and gilt (at the points) to... | |
| University magazine - 1850 - 794 Seiten
...of buildings. " If these things be so," wrote he — "May not the knowledge of this power of poinU be of use to mankind in preserving houses, churches,...of lightning, by directing us to fix on the highest pointa of those edifices upright rods of iron made sharp аз a needle, and gilt (nt the points) to... | |
| 1850 - 890 Seiten
...conductor:, or " lijjhtiiing roJs," for the protection of buildings. " If these things bo so," wrote he — "May not the knowledge of this power of points be...use to mankind in preserving houses churches, ships, &e., from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix on the highest points of those edifices upright... | |
| Lucius Lyon - 1853 - 216 Seiten
...its fire it cannot, and the punch is thereby secured from the stroke ; I say, if these things are so, may not the knowledge of this power of points be of...churches, ships, &c., from the stroke of lightning?" Mr. Wilcke, who made some very acute remarks on Franklin's views of electricity, states, that he witnessed... | |
| |