Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 444
oviding some morereadily polarizable body than the materials employed by masons and carpenters in the construction ofedifices. * Lightning Conductors.—The first lightning conductors consisted merely of metallic rods or chains pro-ceeding from the highest point of the building or the ship, in a… … shattered, and hence arose a prejudice against their use, under the idea that they did more harm thatgood, by inviting the destruction they were intended to prevent. An attentive examination, however,of numerous cases of damage from lightning has shown that the path of discharge from the cloud to…
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