 | American Institute of the City of New York - Agriculture - 1861 - 712 pages
...restored by an explosion between the rod and the house. It was immaterial whether the discharge be from the cloud to the earth, or from the earth to the cloud ; the insulators in both cases equally interfered with the true office of the rod, which is, or should... | |
 | Eclectic medical society of the state of New York - 1870 - 1368 pages
...not, like heat itself, merely another form of fores. In former times, the electric force, as it leaped from the cloud to the earth or from the earth to the cloud, was regarded with mysterious awe. It was thought to be the enunciation of some powerful evil spirit,... | |
 | Arthur Parnell - Lightning - 1882 - 406 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." (Lunn, 9.) I. D 14—24. (14.) "People always speak... | |
 | Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1885 - 418 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" (p. 9). Here Symmer's law is controverted. Mr. Lunn... | |
 | Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1885 - 410 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" (p. 9). Here Symmer's law is controverted. Mr. Lunn... | |
 | Philip Atkinson - 1887 - 270 pages
...insulators. It is also apparent, that the conductor affords equal protection whether the discharge is from the cloud to the earth, or from the earth to the cloud ; as in either case, the discharge will follow the path of least resistance ; which is always through... | |
 | American Institute of Electrical Engineers - Electric engineering - 1891 - 672 pages
...energy disappears, of course only to take on some other form. You may say that the electricity travels from the cloud to the earth, or from the earth to the cloud, whichever you please ; at any rate, there is an electrical action in a vertical direction, the discharge... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1891 - 392 pages
...which the electrical energy is being dissipated as heat. The energy, therefore, is transmitted, not from the cloud to the earth or from the earth to the cloud, but horizontally from all portions of the dielectric to some central core where it appears as heat,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - Science - 1891 - 524 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 bo coiv tinually going on. But... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1904 - 498 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 make... | |
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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... 
