 Sfc. from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix, on the highest parts of those edifices, upright rods of iron, made sharp as a needle, and gilt, to prevent rusting ; and, from the foot of those rods, a wire down the outside of the building into...  A Manual of Electricity, Magnetism, and Meteorologyvon Dionysius Lardner, Charles Vincent Walker - 1841Auszug - Über dieses Buch
 | American Philosophical Society - 1893 - 806 Seiten
...knowledge of this power of points be of use 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 rods of iron, made sharp as a needle, and gilt to prevent rusting,... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1894 - 810 Seiten
...knowledge of this power of points be of use 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 rods of iron, made sharp as a needle, and gilt to prevent rusting,... | |
 | 1842 - 748 Seiten
...preserving houses, churches, ships, ike., from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix, on tli£ highest parts of those edifices, upright rods of iron,...and gilt, to prevent rusting ; and from the foot of these rods, a wire down to the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds... | |
 | William Sturgeon - 1842 - 274 Seiten
...protecting houses, churches, ships, &c., from the stroke of lightning, to fix on the highest parts of these edifices upright rods of iron, made sharp as a needle,...and gilt to prevent rusting ; and from the foot of these rods, a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds... | |
 | 1856 - 606 Seiten
...knowledge of this power of points be of use to mankind in preserving houses, churches, ships, &c., from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix...parts of those edifices upright rods of iron made as sharp as a needle, and gilt to prevent rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down the... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1846 - 628 Seiten
...¿jc.,from the stroke of lightning, by directiig us to ßx, on the highest parts of those edißces, upright rods of iron, made sharp as a needle, and...prevent rusting ; and, from the foot of those rods, a irire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the skrouds of a ship,... | |
 | Charles Barlow - 1772 - 496 Seiten
...protecting houses, churches, ships, &c., from the stroke of lightning, to fix on the highest part of these edifices upright rods of iron, made sharp as a needle,...and gilt to prevent rusting ; and from the foot of these rods, a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds... | |
 | University magazine - 1850 - 794 Seiten
...the knowledge of this power of poinU be of use to mankind in preserving houses, churches, ships, &c., from the stroke 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 Seiten
...knowledge of this power of points be of use to mankind in preserving houses, churches, ships, &c., m by Charles, composed while a prisoner in England, and descriptive points of those edifices, upright rods of iron made sharp as a needle, and gilt (at the points) to... | |
 | 1850 - 890 Seiten
...the knowledge of this power of points be of 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 rods of iron made sharp аз a needle, and (jilt (at the poinis) to... | |
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