 | Richard Turner - 1792 - 296 páginas
...electrical- fire with the matter of lightning, Dr. Franklin, aftonifhing as it muft have appeared, contrived actually to bring lightning from the heavens, by means of an electrical kite, which he railed when a ftorm of thunder was perceived to be coming on. This kite had a pointed wire fixed upon... | |
 | Jasper Adams, John Adams - 1793 - 358 páginas
...of electrical fire with the matter of lightning, Dr. Franklin, aftonifhing as it mud have appeared, contrived actually to bring lightning from the heavens, by means of an eleftricaUiJte, which he raifed, when a ftorm of thunder wjfe perceived to be coming on. ' This kite... | |
 | James Hardie - 1801 - 526 páginas
...electric fluid with the matter of lightning, Mr. Franklin, astonishing as it must then have appeared, contrived actually to bring lightning from the heavens...kite, which he raised when a storm of thunder was observed to be coming on. This lute had a pointed wire fixed on it, by which it drew the lightning... | |
 | 1814 - 378 páginas
...electric fluid with the matter of lightning, Mr. Franklin, astonishing as it must then have appeared, contrived actually to bring lightning from the heavens...kite, which he raised when a storm of thunder was observed to be coming on. This kite had a pointed •wire fixed on it, by which it drew the lightning... | |
 | Richard Turner - 1814 - 300 páginas
...the matter of lightning, Dr. Franklin, aftoniftiing as it muft have appeared, contrived actually jto bring lightning from the heavens, by means of an electrical kite, which he raifed when a ftorm of thunder was perceived to be coming on. This kite had a pointed wire fixed upon... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 páginas
...experiment, the identity of the electric fluid with the matter of lightning, Dr. Franklin contrived to bring lightning from the heavens, by means of an...a storm of thunder was perceived to be coming on; and, with the electricity thus obtained, he charged phials, kindled spirits, and i This phial, and... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - 1820 - 538 páginas
...of electrical fire with the matter of lightning, Dr. Franklin, astonishing as it must have appeared, contrived actually to bring lightning from the heavens,...lightning from the clouds. The lightning descended along the hempen string that held the kite, and was received by a key tied to the extremity of it.... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 páginas
...experiment, the identity of the electric fluid with the mattter of lightning, Doctor Franklin contrived to bring lightning from the heavens by means of an electrical kite, which he raised on the approach of a thunder storm ; and, with the electricity thus obtained, charged phials, kindled... | |
 | 1783 - 540 páginas
...means of an eleflricnl kite, which he raifed when a ftorm of thunder was obierved to be coming oil. This kite had a pointed wire fixed upon it, by which it drew the lightning from the clouds. This lightning descended by the hempen ftring, and was received by a key tied to the extremity of it... | |
 | Michael Francis O'Reilly (in religion Potamian), James Joseph Walsh - 1909 - 438 páginas
...fourth edition, p. 171, he says that "Dr. Franklin, astonishing as it must have appeared, continued actually to bring lightning from the heavens by means...a storm of thunder was perceived to be coming on." Then follows a description taken almost word for word from Dr. Stuber, whom he styles "the best authority... | |
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Franklin, astonishing as it must have appeared, contrived actually to bring lightning from the heavens, by means of an electrical kite, which he raised when a storm of thunder was perceived to be coming on. 
