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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...not for him to say. Then with respect to iron conductors. First of all there was, as Sir James Douglass said, the question of oxidation. He should be told, 'Oh, it can be galvanised.' But he knew enough of galvanised iron to know that galvanised iron was not an everlasting material by any means. And then another thing was, as had been well pointed out, that the gases coming out from many of our factories were seriously injurious. With respect to the area of protection, he knew that there was a little bit of chaff about that diagram, but he did know also that he was within the mark in saying that hundreds of cases had been investigated and that there was not, as regards the area of protection laid down in the report of the Lightningrod Conference, in the whole world more than two instances, and those were a little bit doubtful, in which anything had been struck within that area of protection. The attacks all round were alarming. One would be afraid to go to church in a thunder storm because the conductor on the top of the church would not protect you. Up to the present time there was not a single case of a church having been struck which was protected with agood and efficientconductor. Churches were struck every year. What happened? Sometimes, as one of their friends said, the bottom of the conductor was let into a paving stone. Away in South Wales, at the Cathedral of St. Asaph, they had a conductor laid into a pickle bottle. Of course if people went into that they would see that it was stupidity to allow a country blacksmith to put them up. There was such a thing as a properly made lightning-conductor. His friend Mr. Preece, in spite of all his attention (and he did work thoroughly hard upon that report) had not thoroughly mastered the...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781234891541
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 652
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1234891549
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1148 gr

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