Lightning Conductors and Lightning Guards: A Treatise on the Protection of Buildings, of Telegraph Instruments and Submarine Cables, and of Electric Installations Generally From Damage by Atmospheric Discharges (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Lightning Conductors and Lightning Guards: A Treatise on the Protection of Buildings, of Telegraph Instruments and Submarine Cables, and of Electric Installations Generally From Damage by Atmospheric Discharges

To workers who had been led by experience along something of the same lines as experiment and theory have led me, I attempt to do justice in an appendix.

The protection of cables and telegraphic instruments in general from lightning constitutes another branch of the subjec...