 | John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1817 - 276 pages
...above half an inch diameter) a wire may pass down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds of a ship, and down her side, till it reaches the water. Would not these rods silently draw off the electric fire before the cloud was nigh enough to strike, and thereby in... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1837 - 552 pages
...rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds of a ship, and down her side...secure us from that most sudden and terrible mischief? 21. To determine the question, whether the clouds that contain lightning are electrified or not, I... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Learned institutions and societies - 1893 - 806 pages
...rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds of a ship and down her side...secure us from that most sudden and terrible mischief?" In 1753, Franklin formally recommended that pointed rods be placed on buildings to prevent their being... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 576 pages
...rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds of a ship, and down her side...probably draw the electrical fire silently out of a qloud before it came nigh enough to strike, and thereby secure us from that most sudden and terrible... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...not pointed rods of metal, extending from the highest parts of those edifices to the earth or water, probably draw the electrical fire silently out of a cloud before it came near enough to strike, and thereby secure us from that most sudden and terrible mischief?* So fully... | |
 | William Sturgeon - Electricity - 1842 - 274 pages
...; 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 of a ship, and down her side...electrical fire silently out of a cloud before it came near enough to strike, and thereby secure us from that most sudden and terrible mischief?" This philosopher,... | |
 | 1842 - 748 pages
...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 of a ship, and down her side...electrical fire silently out of a cloud before it came nigli enough to strike, and thereby secure us from that most sudden and terrible mischief ?"* So completely... | |
 | American literature - 1856 - 606 pages
...rusting, and from the foot of those rods a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds of a ship, and down her side...secure us from that most sudden and terrible mischief ?" The tenor of the whole passage of M. Arago is to show that the merit was in conjecturing the identity... | |
 | Charles Barlow - 1772 - 496 pages
...; 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 of a ship, and down her side...electrical fire silently out of a cloud before it came near enough to strike, and thereby secure us from that most sudden and terrible mischief ? " He however... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Science - 1846 - 644 pages
...and, from the foot of those rods, a wire down the outside of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds of a ship, and down her side till it reaches the water? Would not these pomted rods probably draw the electrical ßre silently out of a cloud before it came nigh enough to... | |
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Would not these pointed rods probably draw the electrical fire silently out of a cloud before it came nigh enough to strike, and thereby secure us from that most sudden and terrible mischief... 
