PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF BOOKS
LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS: THEIR HISTORY, NATURE, AND MODE OF APPLICATION.
CHAPTER I. ELECTRICITY AND LIGHTNING.
CHAPTER II. DISCOVERY OF THE LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR.
CHAPTER III. EARLY EXPERIMENTS WITH LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS.
CHAPTER IV. GRADUAL SPREAD OF LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS IN EUROPE.
CHAPTER V. METALS AS CONDUCTORS OF ELECTRICITY.
CHAPTER VI. CHARACTER OF LIGHTNING AND OF THUNDERSTORMS.
CHAPTER VII. INQUIRIES INTO LIGHTNING PROTECTION.
CHAPTER VIII. SIR WILLIAM SNOW HARRIS.
CHAPTER IX. THE BEST MATERIAL FOR CONDUCTORS.
CHAPTER X. HOTEL DE VILLE, BRUSSELS, AND WESTMINSTER PALACE.
CHAPTER XI. WEATHERCOCKS.
CHAPTER XII. LIGHTNING PROTECTION IN FRANCE AND AMERICA.
CHAPTER XIII. LIGHTNING PROTECTION IN ENGLAND.
CHAPTER XIV. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES FROM LIGHTNING.
CHAPTER XV. THE EARTH CONNECTION.
CHAPTER XVI INSPECTION OF LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS.
APPENDIX.
INDEX.
Transcriber's Notes
LONDON: PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
AND PARLIAMENT STREET
MONUMENT TO GENERAL BAIRD ON THE SUMMIT OF TOMACHAISTLE NEAR CRIEFF PERTHSHIRE. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, MAY 28, 1878
LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS
THEIR
HISTORY, NATURE, AND MODE OF APPLICATION
BY
RICHARD ANDERSON, F.C.S. F.G.S.
MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF TELEGRAPH ENGINEERS
ASSOC. INST. C. E.
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
E. & F. N. SPON, 46 CHARING CROSS
NEW YORK
446 BROOME STREET
1880
