 | 664 pages
...banks, and carry all before them. Sometimes the effects are more awful still ; the shock, in proceeding from the cloud to the earth, or from the earth to the cloud, proves fatal to the lives of men or animals, frequently with circumstances of curious interest. Am... | |
 | Medicine - 1824 - 1134 pages
...disquisitions on the nature of thunder and lightning, and whether life is always lost by the discharge from the cloud to the earth, or from the earth to the cloud. All these things are taught in the chemical lectures and chemical writings familiar to the profession.... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...approaches within a certain distance of any conducting substance, the electric fluid passes rapidly from the cloud to the earth, or from the earth to the cloud, accompanied with a brilliant flash of light, and genendly with a violent 198 THE SATURDAY MAGAZINE.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1838 - 632 pages
...or, if not prevented, then the whole quantity of lightning exploded near the house, whether passing from the cloud to the earth, or from the earth to the cloud, will be conveyed in the rods. And, though the iron be crooked round the corner of the building, or... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - Electric power - 1844 - 512 pages
...Electricity, through any or all of the surrounding zones, without influencing their respective electricitiet otherwise than by weakening their force, by the removal...cloud and the earth form the two opposite coatings. Much might be said upon this head, of which the above is but a slight sketch." (158) Magnificent and... | |
 | Ludwig Friedrich Kämtz, Charles Martins, Léon Lalanne - Atmosphere - 1845 - 670 pages
...take place, according to the laws of electricity, through any or all of the surrounding zones, without influencing their respective electricities otherwise...cloud and the earth form the two opposite coatings. Much might be said on this head, of which the above is but a slight sketch."* To this we may add that,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 876 pages
...cloud and the earth be oppositely excited and charged, the spark and the discharge may either pass from the cloud to the earth, or from the earth to the cloud, as circumstances to us imperceptible may direct. (219.) The changes which have been already no- Electricity... | |
 | Henry M. Noad - Electric power - 1849 - 534 pages
...take place, according to the laws of Electricity, through any or all of the surrounding zones, without influencing their respective electricities otherwise...cloud and the earth form the two opposite coatings. Much might be said upon this head, of which the above is but a slight sketch." (158) Magnificent and... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - Electricity - 1855 - 574 pages
...take place according to the laws of Electricity, through any or all of the surrounding zones, without influencing their respective Electricities otherwise...cloud and the earth form the two opposite coatings. Much might be said upon this head, of which the above is but a slight sketch." At a later date, Mr.... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - Questions and answers - 1857 - 360 pages
...an opposite electricity to that of the earth, or of a mountain, approach it, a discharge takes place from the cloud to the earth, or from the earth to the cloud. 207. The mingling of the electricities of the earth and the air must be continually going on. But lightning... | |
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... central nucleus above to that below : every successive flash from the cloud to the earth, or from the earth to the cloud, weakening the charge of the plate of air, of which the cloud and the earth form the two opposite coatings. Much might be said... 
