YOUR correspondent Mr. George Simpson truly points out that the sun's a rays would be stopped by the upper atmosphere, whereas his β rays would penetrate much further; and perhaps he may have ...

(Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Atmospheric and Space Electricity, Montreux, Switzerland, May 5–10, 1963.) Edited by Samuel C. Coroniti. Pp. xiv+616. (Amsterdam, London and ...

Galvani’s contemporaries—including Benjamin Franklin, whose work helped prove the existence of atmospheric electricity—had made great strides in understanding the nature of electricity and how to ...

Franklin] did about the nature of atmospheric electricity. His experimental setup was pretty simple: a DJI Mini2 drone with enough payload capacity to haul a length of fine-gauge magnet wire up to ...

1. Adiabatic” Expansion: Paul Bunyan’s Bicycle Pump. 2. Atmospheric Electricity: Van de Graf generator shows inductive charging, breakdown, how a lightning rod works…. 3. Atmospheric Optics: 1/r^2 ...