 And when the rain has wet the kite and twine, so that it can conduct the electric fire freely, you will find it stream out plentifully from the key on the approach of your knuckle.  Bulletin - Page 8by United States. Weather Bureau - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1926 - 446 pages
...rain has wetted the kite and twine, so that it can conduct the electric fire freely, you will find it stream out plentifully from the key on the approach of your knuckle. At this key the phial may be charged : and from electric fire thus obtained, spirits may be kindled,... | |
 | Arthur Holly Compton - History - 1973 - 822 pages
...the rain has wet the kite and twine, so that it can conduct the electric fire freely, you will see it stream out plentifully from the key on the approach of your knuckle. At this key, the phial may be charged ; and from electric fire thus obtained spirits may be kindled,... | |
 | Richard P. Olenick, Tom M. Apostol, David L. Goodstein - Science - 1986 - 589 pages
...rain has wetted the kite and twine, so that it can conduct the electric fire freely, you will find it stream out plentifully from the key on the approach of your knuckle . . . Ben Franklin in a letter to Peter Coilinson, 16 October 1752 35.1 ELECTRIC FIELDS AND POTENTIALS... | |
 | Alan Holden - Science - 1992 - 276 pages
...rain has wetted the kite and twine, so that it can conduct the electric fire freely, you will find it stream out plentifully from the key on the approach of your knuckle. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Letter to Peter Collinson IN PICTURING the bonding of atoms into solids, Chapter... | |
 | Mickey S. Eisenberg - Medical - 1997 - 326 pages
...Franklin held his knuckle next to a metal key hanging from the string. He wrote, "You will find it (the electric fire) stream out plentifully from the key on the approach of your knuckle."18 Franklin was lucky his kite did not take a direct jolt of lightning since he would have... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 404 pages
...Rain has wet the Kite and Twine, so that it can conduct the Electric Fire freely, you will find it stream out plentifully from the Key on the Approach of your Knuckle. At this Key the Phial may be charg'd; and from Electric Fire thus obtain'd, Spirits may be kindled,... | |
 | James Campbell - Printers - 1999 - 322 pages
...Rain has wet the Kite and Twine, so that it can conduct the Electric Fire freely, you will find it stream out plentifully from the Key on the Approach of your Knuckle. At this Key the Phial may be charg'd; and from Electric Fire thus obtained, Spirits may be kindled,... | |
 | Raymond Chang - Science - 2000 - 1048 pages
...rain has wet the kite and twine, so that it can conduct the electric fire freely, you will find it stream out plentifully from the key on the approach of your knuckle. — Benjamin Franklin* All biological and many chemical systems are aqueous solutions that contain... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1974 - 260 pages
...rain has wet the kite and twine, so that it can conduct the electric fire freely, you will find it stream out plentifully from the key on the approach of your knuckle. At this key the phial may charged; and from electric fire thus obtained, spirits may be kindled, and... | |
 | Christopher J. Murrey - Inventors - 2002 - 254 pages
...rain has wetted the kite and twine, so that it can conduct the electric fire freely, you will find it stream out plentifully from the key on the approach of your knuckle. At this key the phial may be charged: and from electric fire thus obtained, spirits may be kindled,... | |
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