Lightning, Thunder and Lightning Conductors

by Gerald Molloy

[19] See Report of Lightning Rod Conference, p. 119.

[20] Loco citato.

[21] Sir William Snow Harris, loco citato, p. 274.

[22] Id., p. 275.

[23] The Thunderstorm, by Charles Tomlinson, F.R.S., Third Edition, p. 172.

[24] See for these facts, Anderson, Lightning Conductors, p. 197; Tomlinson, The Thunderstorm, pp. 167-9; Harris, loco citato, pp. 273-4.

[25] See Anderson, Lightning Conductors, pp. 170-5.

[26] The Thunderstorm, pp. 158-9. See also an account of four persons who were struck on the Matterhorn, in July, 1869, all of whom were hurt, and none killed: Whymper’s Scrambles Among the Alps, pp. 414, 415.

[27] See Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1773, p. 42, and 1778, part i., p. 232; Anderson’s Lightning Conductors, pp. 40-2; Lighting Rod Conference, pp. 76-9.

[28] See A Lecture on Thunderstorms, by Professor Tait of Edinburgh, published in Nature, vol. xxii., p. 365.