Miscellaneous experiments and remarks on electricity, the air-pump, and the barometer : with the description of an electrometer of a new construction ... / by A. Brook, of Norwich.

  • Brook, Abraham
Date:
1797
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Credit: Miscellaneous experiments and remarks on electricity, the air-pump, and the barometer : with the description of an electrometer of a new construction ... / by A. Brook, of Norwich. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    yangles*^ as they are called. The broke of the lightning feems to have taken its paffage by this pair of yangles as they hung, and the rod of the vane; and in its paffage the yangles were fo compleatly fixed, at the joinings of the links, by being melted with the broke, that the whole of the chain remained perfectly biff and braight, and adhered fo firmly toge- ther, that the yangles were carried to the blackfmith’s to be fet loofe again, and made fit for ufe. The rod of the vane, and the vane itfelf, were wholly mifplaced, and never yet were found any where, nor is it expected now, will ever be found. Great part of the bricks of the gable were thrown in various directions; feme of them were thrown over part of the dwelling-houfe, which was confi- derably higher than the bable, to the dibance of between eighty and ninety yards; [which I meahired by pacing the dibance:] many of the windows of the dwelling-houfe, which was at * A kind of fetters made of ftrong iron iinks, to fix on a horfes foot, to prevent them from running away or breaking pafture. about