 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1906 - 502 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... | |
 | Richard Glazebrook - Physics - 1923 - 858 pages
...lightning discharges may pass between a cloud and the ground. These may carry positive electricity from the cloud to the earth or from the earth to the cloud ; on the whole the results obtained thus far indicate a greater frequency of the latter kind of discharge.... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1821 - 664 pages
...banks, and carry all before them. Sometimos 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. Ли... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1906 - 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... | |
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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... 
