Lightning Conductors
,VERYONE is familiar with the appearance of a lightning conductor, and it is popularly supposed to act like a drain pipe, carrying the visible lighfning from.the building and dispersing it in the ground. But this is only part of its usefulness and action. It also stands on guard, and gives protection by silently draining the immediate atmosphere of. electrical accumula: tions, which, when of sufficient volume or magnitude, break down, and so form the visible flash of lightning. Obversely, it also dissipates similar electrical accumulations from earth to atmosphere. ‘
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Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 34, 7 March 1930, Page 3
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91Lightning Conductors Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 34, 7 March 1930, Page 3
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