 I say, if these things are so, may not the 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 on the highest parts of those edifices, upright rods of...  Elementary Lessons in Electricity & Magnetism - Page 318by Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1894 - 638 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1837 - 552 pages
...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...to mankind, in preserving houses, churches, ships, &c. from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix, on the highest parts of those edifices, upright... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Learned institutions and societies - 1893 - 806 pages
..." 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...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 - Learned institutions and societies - 1894 - 810 pages
...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...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 literature - 1856 - 606 pages
...of M. Dalibard in his trial at Marlay, the great philosopher had written : " If these things are so, may not the knowledge of this power of points be of...to mankind in preserving houses, churches, ships, &c., from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix on the highest parts of those edifices upright... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Science - 1846 - 664 pages
...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 - Science - 1846 - 628 pages
...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... | |
 | Pharmacy - 1847 - 644 pages
...no such effect would follow. Now if the fire of electricity and lightning be the same," he 'adds, " may not the knowledge of this power of points be of...to mankind in preserving houses, churches, ships, &c. from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix on the highest parts of those edifices upright... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Astronomy - 1849 - 630 pages
...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 pages
...conductors, or " lightningrods," for the protection of buildings. " If these things be so," wrote he — " ed, &c., from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix on the highest points of those edifices,... | |
 | 1850 - 890 pages
...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... | |
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