Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 569
et over the river. To this rocket wasattached a cord. The cord pulled a wire, andthen the wire pulled a small cable across the river.On this cable was suspended a truck which tookover the main cable of the bridge, and so, pieceby piece, the bridge was gradually put together. 1038 NATURE AND SCIENCE… … THE REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH OF LIGHTNING. the afternoon, the rain began to fall in torrents,and the lightning flashes were so vivid and, insome particulars, so interesting to a photog-rapher, that I resolved to take a picture of a flash,as I had long desired to do. I set the camera onmy porch,…
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