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It is an important thing in the study of meteorology to know the relations of atmospheric electricity with that of barometrical fluctuations. There would seem to be a constant quantitative uniformity between the two.

August 1769 A thunderbolt struck into the Theater at Venice during a performance witnessed by 600 people. Several were killed. It put out the candles, melted a Lady's gold watch case, and the jewels in the ears of others, and cracked several diamonds worn by others.

In a lecture by Faraday before the Royal Institution he stated that metals did not form perfect conductors of electricity, their substance, in fact, tending to obstruct the passage of the fluid. Conducting rods, unless great care was taken in their construction, might prove far more injurious than useful, as if there were other conducting agents near, and not absolutely connected with the rod, mischief might result from the lateral spark."