 To the top of the upright stick of the cross is to be fixed a very sharp pointed wire, rising a foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, next the hand, is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join, a key may be fastened.  A History of Science - 294. oldalszerző: Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 227 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Edwin James Houston - 1894 - 240 oldal
...foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, next the hand, is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join, a key may be fastened....that the silk ribbon may not be wet ; and care must ba taken that the twine does not touch the frame of the door or window. As soon as any of the thunder... | |
 | United States. Weather Bureau - 1899 - 926 oldal
...foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine next the hand is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join a key may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door... | |
 | 1899 - 848 oldal
...foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine next the hand is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join a key may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door... | |
 | 1897 - 954 oldal
...foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine next the hand is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join a key may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door... | |
 | Willis Luther Moore - 1900 - 168 oldal
...foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine next the hand is to be tied a silk ribbon and where the silk and twine join a key may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder gust appears to be coming on and the person who holds the string must stand within a door or... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 852 oldal
...foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, next the hand, is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join, a key may be fastened....ribbon may not be wet; and care must be taken that the 1 Read at the Royal Society, December 21, 1752, and printed in the Gentleman' z Magazine, December,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1912 - 274 oldal
...or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, next the hand, is to be tied a silkzo ribbon, and where the silk and twine join, a key may be fastened....cover, so that the silk ribbon may not be wet; and care 25 must be taken that the twine does not touch the frame of the door or window. As soon as any of the... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1913 - 1028 oldal
...when a thunder-gust app-vi:to be coming on, and ttie person who holds the string must stand with.1 a door or window, or under some cover, so that the...silk ribbon may not be wet; and care must be taken tliat the twine does not touch the frame of tlie door or window. As soon as any of the thunderclouds... | |
 | Alexander McAdie - 1917 - 344 oldal
...foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine next the hand is to be tied a silk ribbon and where the silk and twine join a key may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door... | |
 | Mickey S. Eisenberg - 1997 - 326 oldal
...for his 1752 experiment demonstrating the electrical nature of lightning. As he describes it, "The kite is to be raised, when a thunder-gust appears to be coming on (which is very frequent in this country). . . . The pointed wire will draw the electric fire . . .... | |
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