 | Electric power - 1922 - 734 pages
...foot or more above the wood. In the end of the twine, next the hand, is to be held a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join a key may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder-gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1926 - 446 pages
...foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, next the hand, is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join, a key may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder-gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door... | |
 | Richard P. Olenick, Tom M. Apostol, David L. Goodstein - Science - 1986 - 589 pages
...foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, next the hand, is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join, a key may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder-gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1974 - 260 pages
...foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, next the hand, is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join, a key may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder-gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door... | |
 | Don Munson, Allianora Rosse - Crafts & Hobbies - 2001 - 194 pages
...or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, next to the hand, is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join, a key may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thundergust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door or... | |
 | Christopher J. Murrey - Inventors - 2002 - 254 pages
...foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, next the hand, is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join, a key may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder-gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door... | |
 | Michael P. Branch - Nature - 2004 - 444 pages
...foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, next the hand, is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join, a key may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder-gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door... | |
 | Whetham William Cecil Dampier - 2019 - 372 pages
...foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, next the hand, is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join a key may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder-gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1907 - 460 pages
...wood. In the end of the twine, next the hand, is to be held a silk ribbon, and where the silk and cord join a key may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder-gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door... | |
 | Endless amusement - Fireworks - 1820 - 232 pages
...wire, rising a foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join, a key may be fastened. This kite it to be raised when a thunder-storm appears to be coming on ; and the person who holds the string... | |
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This kite is to be raised when a thunder-gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door or window, or under some cover so that the silk ribbon may not be wet, and care must be taken that the twine does not touch... 
