KITE ATTRACTS LIGHTNING
(Received 18, 1.0 p.m.) Berlin, Sept. 17. A kito attaclicd b.V wire to an observation vessel at the Friedrichshafen observatory disappcarcd in a eloud, whefeupon a slieet of fire rusbed down the xtriTe. A stroke of lightning followed axld a rain of fire poured ou the vessel and Lake Constance. Six thousand feet of wire was melted and the kite and instrumexits were destroyed.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 208, 18 September 1937, Page 5
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