Lightning Conductors
by F.C.S. Richard Anderson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Anderson, Richard, F.C.S.
- Title
- Lightning Conductors: Their History, Nature, and Mode of Application
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TH: Technology: Building construction
- Subject
- Lightning conductors
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 54576
- Release Date
- April 19, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.LIST OF BOOKS
- 5.LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS: THEIR HISTORY, NATURE, AND MODE OF APPLICATION. — CHAPTER I. ELECTRICITY AND LIGHTNING.
- 6.CHAPTER II. DISCOVERY OF THE LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR.
- 7.CHAPTER III. EARLY EXPERIMENTS WITH LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS.
- 8.CHAPTER IV. GRADUAL SPREAD OF LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS IN EUROPE.
- 9.CHAPTER V. METALS AS CONDUCTORS OF ELECTRICITY.
- 10.CHAPTER VI. CHARACTER OF LIGHTNING AND OF THUNDERSTORMS.
- 11.CHAPTER VII. INQUIRIES INTO LIGHTNING PROTECTION.
- 12.CHAPTER VIII. SIR WILLIAM SNOW HARRIS.
- 13.CHAPTER IX. THE BEST MATERIAL FOR CONDUCTORS.
- 14.CHAPTER X. HÔTEL DE VILLE, BRUSSELS, AND WESTMINSTER PALACE.
- 15.CHAPTER XI. WEATHERCOCKS.
- 16.CHAPTER XII. LIGHTNING PROTECTION IN FRANCE AND AMERICA.
- 17.CHAPTER XIII. LIGHTNING PROTECTION IN ENGLAND.
- 18.CHAPTER XIV. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES FROM LIGHTNING.
- 19.CHAPTER XV. THE EARTH CONNECTION.
- 20.CHAPTER XVI INSPECTION OF LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS.
- 21.APPENDIX.
- 22.INDEX.
- 23.Transcriber’s Notes
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