Inside Out Library · Explore

Scientific American, Vol. 96, No. 24 (1907) (1907)

leaf 4

An illustration from Scientific American, Vol. 96, No. 24 (1907), 1907, leaf 4
re in a sufficiently indicators corresponding to the ‘‘distant” and “home” I believe that the slow movements of electrical dis- stable and philosophical frame of mind in a thunder signals respectively, pneumatically operated, and show- charges produced in this manner are due to ionization, storm to… … It does not seem discharges which can melt metallic rods an inch in Mechanism Carried on Engine. impossible, there- diameter. During thunder storms discharges have Fig. 1.—Normal position of apparatus. Fig. 2.—Position after lever A fore, to produce often occurred which. have melted lightning…

Internet Archive · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Scientific American, Vol. 96, No. 24 (1907)

More like this