| Benjamin Franklin - 1835 - 340 Seiten
...To the top of the npright stick ot the eross is to be fixed a very sharp pointed wire, rising a foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, next the hand, 1se to he tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join, a key may he fastened. This kite is... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1893 - 806 Seiten
...112 the top of the upright stick of the cross is to be fixed a very sharppointed wire, rising a foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, next...may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door... | |
| Raphael - 1841 - 782 Seiten
...twine join, a key may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder-storm appears to be coining on ; and the person who holds the string must stand within a 246 door or window, or under some cover, so that the ribbon may not be wetted by the rain, and care... | |
| T. C. Thornton - 1846 - 268 Seiten
...be fixed a very bbarp pointed wire, rising a foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join, the key may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder storm appears to be coming on; and... | |
| William John Johnston - 1880 - 288 Seiten
...To the top of the upright stick of the cross is to be fixed a very sharp pointed wire, rising a foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, next...when a thundergust appears to be coming on, and the per son who holds the string must stand within a door or window, or under some cover, so that the silk... | |
| United States. Weather Bureau - 1899 - 926 Seiten
...To the top of the upright stick of the cross is tobe fixed a very sharp-pointed wire rising a foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine next...may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door... | |
| 1899 - 848 Seiten
...To the top of the uprightstick of the cross is to be fixed a very sharp-pointed wire rising a foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine next...may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door... | |
| Florian Cajori - 1899 - 340 Seiten
...to the top of the upright stick of the cross is to be fixed a very sharppointed wire, rising a foot or more above the 'wood. To the end of the twine next...where the silk and twine join, a key may be fastened." 2 With this apparatus he went out on the common, accompanied only by his son. He placed himself under... | |
| Florian Cajori - 1899 - 342 Seiten
...to the top of the upright stick of the cross is to be fixed a very sharppointed wire, rising a foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine next...where the silk and twine join, a key may be fastened." 2 With this apparatus he went out on the common, accompanied only by his son. He placed himself under... | |
| Florian Cajori - 1899 - 352 Seiten
...to the top of the upright stick of the cross is to be fixed a very sharppointed wire, rising a foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine next...ribbon, and where the silk and twine join, a key may be fastened."2 With this apparatus he went out on the common, accompanied only by his son. He placed himself... | |
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