Problems of Hydrone and Water: the Origin of Electricity in Thunderstorms

Abstract

IN Shavian parlance—“You never can tell”. I had not supposed that I should be able to earth my friend Sir Oliver Lodge. I trust the meteorologists will not be unduly depressed by what he says—the more as it is clear that, big as he is as a man and great as is his command of electrical phenomena, “don't quite know where are”—in a thunderstorm! Does any one? Often though the demonstration be given, do we understand what happens even when a stick of sealing wax is rubbed?