...this ? Let the experiment be made." By the action of points he proposed to draw down the lightning. " On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box (as in Fig. 13), big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of...

...this ? Let the experiment be made." By the action of points he proposed to draw down the lightning. " On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box (as in Fig. 13), big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of...

...electricity and lightning are identical. To prove this fact he proposed the following experiment : " On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a...of sentry box, big enough to contain a man and an electric stand. From the middle of the stand let an iron rod rise and pass bending out of the door,...

...came nigh enough to strike, and thereby secure us from that most sudden and terrible mischief? 21. To determine the question, whether the clouds that...electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to be try'd where it may be done conveniently. On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of...

...cannot, and the punch is thereby secured from the stroke." * "To determine the question," he says, "whether the clouds that contain lightning are electrified...I would propose an experiment to be tried where it may be done conveniently. On the top of some high tower or steeple, 1 To Peter Collinson, July 29,...

...before it came nigh enough to strike, and thereby secure us from that most sudden and terrible mischief? To determine the question, whether the clouds that...I would propose an experiment to be tried where it may be done conveniently. On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box, (as...

...(1749.) In writing to Collinson in July, 1750, he tells his London friend how the experiment may be made: "On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box—big enough to contain a man—and an electrical stand. From the middle of the stand let...

...made. A year later he outlined the necessary experiment in a letter to his English friend Collinson. On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a...enough to contain a man — and an electrical stand'' [a stool with feet made of glass or other insulating material, so that any one standing thereon is...

...describe the experiment by which their identity may be demonstrated. His directions are as follows : — " On the top of some high tower, or steeple, place a kind of sentrybox, big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of the stand let an...

...and lightning " ; and by many others. (&) The devising by Franklin,183 in 1/49, of a simple means " to determine the question, whether the clouds that contain lightning are electrified or not." (c) The proof, May 10, 1752, by Dalibard134 (following "" Brand's " Antiquities," Castor and Pollux....