| ID | #1632408770 |
| Added | Thu, 23/09/2021 |
| Author | July N. |
| Sources | The Crockett County Sentinel
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| Phenomena | |
| Status | Hypothesis
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Initial data
Alamo, Tennessee, Clock District Crockett, September 12, 1873, p.
At the last meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, a letter from M. A. Parent was read out, which tells about the consequences of a powerful lightning strike that fell in Troyes (Aube) in the central quarter of the city, with a noise equal to the report of several artillery pieces.
It seems that this phenomenon occurred only in the Rue de la Monnaie, where at No. 37 a young girl standing on the threshold of her home saw a fireball the size of an orange fall at her feet, then roll down the street and disappear. She experienced a severe shock, causing tremors that did not stop until the next day. The pins in her hair were torn off, as were all the other metal objects that she had with her.
Her father, leaning against the iron bars of the window of a neighboring house, was paralyzed for several seconds and did not recover from the turmoil for several days.
On the same street, in the house 24, or in the "Electoral House", as it is also called, an electric liquid (*a hypothetical weightless liquid, the presence of which was previously attributed to electrical phenomena) fell on the tower behind the house, punched a hole in the weather vane, slipped off the roof on the zinc coating. This, got inside, loosened the beams supporting the wooden structure, broke through the partition, then through the floor to the lower floor, broke through the wall to the attic, got out through the window, ran through the gutters and pipes laid to the first story; from there, they moved to the next house, broke into a warehouse where there were several iron stoves with the usual cast-iron decorations, such as wreaths, flowers, etc., all of which were precisely designed on the ceiling with the accuracy of a photograph; then he melted the wire from the bell, the trace of which he left on the wall, and eventually fell in love with several gilded wooden rods intended for sale and wrapped in paper.
They have been enriched with a fantastic, but elegant design.
Original news
The Crockett County Sentinel
Alamo, Tennessee, CROCKETT COUNTY SENTINEL, 12 September 1873, page
Freaks of Lightning.
At the last editing of the French academy of sciences, a letter was read from M. A. Parent, giving an account of the effects of a violent stroke of lightning, which fell on the 26th ultimo at Troyes (Aube) in a central quarter of the town, with a noise equal to the report of several pieces of artillery. The phenomenon seems to have been confined to the Rue de la Monnaie; where, at No. 37, a young girl who was standing on the threshold of her dwelling saw a fiery globe, of the size of an orange, fall at her feet, then roll along the street and disappear. She experienced a violent shock, causing a trembling that did not cease until the following day. The pins in her hair were torn away, as well as all the other metal articles she had about her person. Her father, who was leaning against the iron bars of a window of the next house, was paralyzed for a few seconds, and did not recover from the commotion for several days. At No. 24, same street, in the "Election-house," as it is called, the electric fluid fell on a turret behind the house, pierced a hole through the weather-cock, slid down the roof along the zinc which covered it, got inside by loosening the beams that supported the woodwork, broke through a partition, then through the floor into the lower story, made its way through a wall into a garret, got out through a window, ran along the spouts and pipes laid down to the first story; thence passed to the next house, broke into a warehouse where there were some iron stoves, with the usual cast-iron ornaments, such as wreaths, flowers, etc., all of which got faithfully designed on the ceiling with the precision of photography; then melted the wire of a bell, the trace of which it left on the wall, and at length took fancy to some gilt wooden rods intended for sale and wrapped up in paper. These it enriched with fantastic but elegant designs, and after a few more vagaries took its leave.
Hypotheses
Ball lightning
A rare natural phenomenon, a unified physical theory of the origin and course of which has not been presented to date.
There are about 200 theories explaining the phenomenon, but none of them has received absolute recognition in the academic environment. Since this phenomenon was introduced into the scientific sphere by the English physician and researcher of electrical engineering William Snow Harris in 1843, and a scientist of the French Academy Francois Arago in 1855, many hypotheses were put forward. Here are selectively some of them:
Investigation
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