An Electrical Phenomenon.
♦ A curious electrical phenomenon was observed by M. Mettetal afc Grenoble last month. Although there was neither lightning nor thunder* the day was dull and stormy, after a drought of several months, and rain fell in the evening. About 8 p.m. ho approached the window and saw a ball of fire about a foot in diameter on the top of an iron telegraph pole on the roof of a house. A sheaf of sparks also rost from the end of the pole. The ball resembled an electric arc lamp, and in some 40 or 50 seconds broke into three smaller balls, about the size of a child's playing ball, which rolled along the roof and suddenly vanished without detonation. Almost immediately after a second ball appeared on the end of the pole, and vanished at the end of two or three seconds, also without detonation. At the same time a sheaf oi sparks again rose from the pole. Another observer worthy of credence saw two such balls in the samo place about 5.80 p.m. Next day M. Mettetal found that the pole was bent out of the vertical. This, of course, is another instructive case of "globe lightning.".
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Manawatu Herald, 15 February 1896, Page 3
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201An Electrical Phenomenon. Manawatu Herald, 15 February 1896, Page 3
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