Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Band 2Derby & Jackson, 1859 |
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... lightning ; this cloud being , according to all appearance , only the consequence of a storm , which happened elsewhere . - I am , with a profound respect , your most humble and obedient servant , G. MAZEAS . A a more particular Account ...
... lightning ; this cloud being , according to all appearance , only the consequence of a storm , which happened elsewhere . - I am , with a profound respect , your most humble and obedient servant , G. MAZEAS . A a more particular Account ...
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... lightning com- pletely demonstrated . B. FRANKLIN . To the same . Hypothesis , of the Sea being the grand source of Lightning , retracted . Positive , and some- times negative , Electricity of the Clouds disco- vered . - New Experiments ...
... lightning com- pletely demonstrated . B. FRANKLIN . To the same . Hypothesis , of the Sea being the grand source of Lightning , retracted . Positive , and some- times negative , Electricity of the Clouds disco- vered . - New Experiments ...
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... lightning or thunder , but only a dark cloud over the rod ; that sometimes af- ter a flash of lightning they would suddenly stop ; and at other times , when they had not rang before , they would , after a flash , sudden- ly begin to ...
... lightning or thunder , but only a dark cloud over the rod ; that sometimes af- ter a flash of lightning they would suddenly stop ; and at other times , when they had not rang before , they would , after a flash , sudden- ly begin to ...
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... observing the recent effects of lightning on buildings , trees , & c . that they would consider them particularly with a view to discover the direction . But in these ex- EXPERIMENT III . Let a tin tube , of four PHILOSOPHICAL . 287.
... observing the recent effects of lightning on buildings , trees , & c . that they would consider them particularly with a view to discover the direction . But in these ex- EXPERIMENT III . Let a tin tube , of four PHILOSOPHICAL . 287.
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... lightning . But a rod of half an inch diameter would conduct four times as much as one of a quarter . And with regard to conducting , though a certain thickness of metal be required to con- duct a great quantity of electricity , and ...
... lightning . But a rod of half an inch diameter would conduct four times as much as one of a quarter . And with regard to conducting , though a certain thickness of metal be required to con- duct a great quantity of electricity , and ...
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