| Tiberius Cavallo - Electric power - 1777 - 484 pages
...the great fimilarity exifting between lightning and Electricity ; what fully proves their identity is, that the matter of lightning may be actually brought down from the clouds by means of infulated and pointed metallic rods, or by electrical kites, and with it any known electrical experiment... | |
| Tom Telescope, John Newbery - Science - 1794 - 166 pages
...befide the great fimilarity exifting between lightning and electricity, what fully proves them the fame, is, that the matter of lightning may be actually brought down from the clouds by means of cleftrical kites : but as this is rather a dangerous experiment in unfkilful hands, I will not now,defcribe... | |
| Tiberius Cavallo - Aeronautics - 1803 - 638 pages
...fimilarity between the effects of lightning and thofe of electricity, what fully proves their identity, is, that the matter of lightning may be actually brought down from the clouds by means of infulated metallic rods, or of electrical kites, and with it any known electrical experiment may be... | |
| Tom Telescope - Science - 1808 - 188 pages
...between lightning and electricity, what fully proves them the same is, that the matter of lightningmay be actually brought down from the clouds by means...is a very dangerous experiment in unskilful hands, I will not now describe the method of making it. Clouds have almost always some electrical matter in... | |
| John Lee Comstock - Physics - 1838 - 266 pages
...of the great similarity between the effects of lightning and electricity, what proves their identity is, that the matter of lightning may be actually brought down from the clouds by means of insulated metallic rods, or electrical kites, and with which any known electrical experiments may be... | |
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