 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Children - 1801 - 372 pages
...extract from the minutes he used to keep of the experiments he made, with memorandums of such as he purposed to make, the reasons for making them, and the observations that rose upon them. By this extract, says Dr. Franklin, you will see that the thought was not so much an... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1815 - 526 pages
...extract from the minutes he used to keep of the experiments he made, with memorandums of such as he purposed to make, the reasons for making them, and the observations that rose upon them. By this extract, says Dr. Franklin, you will see that the thought was not so much an... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...down the lightning, in order to ascertain its sameness with the electric fluid, I cannot answer better than by giving you an extract from the minutes I used...them, and the observations that arose upon them, from whieh minutes my letters were afterwards drawn. By this extract you will see that the thought was not... | |
 | Thomas Tate - Physics - 1856 - 540 pages
...friend he gives the following account of the origin of the conception which conducted him to the great discovery: "Your question, how I came first to think...extract you will see that the thought was not so much an out of the way one, but that it might have occurred to an electrician. 'Nov. 1749. Electric fluid agrees... | |
 | Thomas Tate - Physics - 1858 - 540 pages
...first to think of proposing the experiment of drawing down the lightning in order to ascertain ifs sameness with the electric fluid, I cannot better...extract you will see that the thought was not so much an out of the way one, but that it might have occurred to an electrician. 'Nov. 1749. Electric fluid agrees... | |
 | Richard Anderson (F.C.S.) - 1880 - 282 pages
...wrote a highly characteristic letter. ' I cannot answer your question better,' he told his friend, ' than by giving you an extract from the minutes I used to keep of the experiments I made. By this extract you will see that the thought was not so much an out-of-the-way one but that it might... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1905 - 512 pages
...down the lightning, in order to ascertain its sameness with the electric fluid, I cannot answer better than by giving you an extract from the minutes I used...out-of-the-way one," but that it might have occurred to any electrician. "November 7, 1749. Electrical fluid agrees with lightning in these particulars, 1.... | |
 | Edwin James Houston - Electric industries - 1905 - 648 pages
...lightkitHexpelv ning, in order to ascertain its sameness with the electric fluid, T can not answer better than by giving you an extract from the minutes I used to keep of FRANKLIN AND ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY 135 the experiments I made, with memorandums of such as I purposed... | |
 | Edwin James Houston - Atmosphere - 1907 - 404 pages
...the lightning, in order to ascertain its sameness with the electric fluid, I can not answer better than by giving you an extract from the minutes I used...such as I purposed to make, the reasons for making themand the observations that arose upon them, from which minutes my letters were afterwards drawn.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 pages
...men do now, entering in it minutes of the experiments he made " with memorandums " 1 of such as he purposed to make, the reasons for making them, and the observations that arose upon them. From this note-book, he quoted for one of his correspondents a list of observations made upon experiments... | |
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Your question, how I came first to think of proposing the experiment of drawing down the lightning, in order to ascertain its sameness with the electric fluid, I cannot answer better than by giving you an extract from the minutes I used to keep of the... 
