Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-09-23 | Page 12 | Lightning Never Strikes the Sea

Lightning Nexer Strikes the Set Prof John Trowbridge of Harxnrd has lately made a series of exicil-ments exicil-ments with electric spnrlts six feet In length whkh he thinks show that lightning noiei stilkea the surfuee of the neenii Ills experiments were undertaken un-dertaken with a xlew to xolatizlng watei for the puri ose of obtaining a strong spectrum of water xupor Ilut he foun I. that hla spnrks of high elcitro motlxe foiee and a far aa possible pos-sible reaimbllng lightning aluajs re-tued re-tued to strike the auifaie of the water mu! pnaseel Inwten 1 to the edges eif the vessel containing It He nleo found It extiemel) dlllkult to piss jowerful spmks from nne stream of xxnter to another An inteiestlng conclusion which he draws I that It does not seem probable that HUitnlng discharges 1 asa through leglomi In the air of heax) rainfall