| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1899 - 818 lapas
...notebook: "Electric fluid agrees with lightning in these particulars : (1) Giving light; (2) color of the light; (3) crooked direction ; (4) swift motion; (5) being conducted by metals; (0) crack or noise in exploding; (7) subsisting in water or ice; (8) rending bodies in passingthrough;... | |
| Raymond Phineas Stearns - 1970 - 822 lapas
...John Lining (March 18, 1755), Franklin quoted from the minutes of his experiments of November 7, 1749: Electrical fluid agrees with lightning in these particulars:...motion. 5, Being conducted by metals. 6. Crack or noise on exploding. 7. Subsisting in water or ice. 8. Rending bodies it passes through. 1). Destroying animals,... | |
| Keith J. Holyoak, Paul Thagard - 1996 - 340 lapas
...concerning how he came to propose it, by quoting from a journal that he had kept at the time: Nov. 7, 1749. Electrical fluid agrees with lightning in these particulars: 1 . Giving light. 2. Color of the light. 3. Crooked direction. 4. Swift motion. 5. Being conducted by metals. 6. Crack or... | |
| James Campbell - 1999 - 322 lapas
...same. In the log of his experiments for 7 November 1749, Franklin lists the following similarities: Electrical fluid agrees with lightning in these particulars:...Crack or noise in exploding. 7. Subsisting in water or ice. 8. Rending bodies it passes through. 9. Destroying animals. 10. Melting metals. 11. Firing inflammable... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1974 - 260 lapas
...any electrician. "November 7, 1749. Electrical fluid agrees with lightning in these particulars. I. Giving light. 2. Colour of the light. 3. Crooked direction....Crack or noise in exploding. 7. Subsisting in water or ice. 8. Rending bodies it passes through. 9. Destroying animals. 10. Melting metals. 1 1. Firing inflammable... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, University Press of the Pacific - 2001 - 190 lapas
...much "an out-of-the-way one," but that it might have occurred to an electrician. " November fth, 1749. Electrical fluid agrees with lightning in these particulars: 1. Giving light. 2. Color of the light. 3. Crooked direction. 4. Swift motion. 5. Being conducted by metals. 6. Crack or... | |
| Michael Brian Schiffer - 2003 - 408 lapas
...51-52. The complete list, from notes that were not published until a few years later, reads as follows: "1. Giving light. 2. Colour of the light. 3. Crooked...Crack or noise in exploding. 7. Subsisting in water or ice. 8. Rending bodies it passes through. 9. Destroying animals. 10. Melting metals. 11. Firing inflammable... | |
| Michael Brian Schiffer, Kacy L. Hollenback, Carrie L. Bell - 2003 - 398 lapas
...The complete list, from notes that were not published until a few years later, reads as follows: "i. Giving light. 2. Colour of the light. 3. Crooked direction....Crack or noise in exploding. 7. Subsisting in water or ice. 8. Rending bodies it passes through. 9. Destroying animals. 10. Melting metals. 11. Firing inflammable... | |
| Walter Isaacson - 2003 - 607 lapas
...He listed twelve of them, including "1. Giving light. 2. Color of the light. 3. Crooked directions. 4. Swift motion. 5. Being conducted by metals. 6. Crack or noise in exploding ... 9. Destroying animals ... 12. Sulpherous smell." More important, he made a connection between this... | |
| Tom Tucker - 2009 - 304 lapas
...lightning science developed. He looked back and excerpted this passage from his notebooks: "Nov. 7,1749. Electrical fluid agrees with lightning in these particulars: 1. Giving light . 2. Color of the light . 3. Crooked direction. 4. Swift motion. 5. Being cooducted by metals. 6. Crack... | |
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