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Klappentext An eminent physicist's systematic 1892 study of the protection of buildings, cables and telegraphic instruments from lightning strikes. Zusammenfassung Oliver Lodge (1851–1940), the eminent physicist and writer on science, published in 1892 a pioneering and well-illustrated study of the protection of buildings, cables and telegraphic instruments from the devastation caused by lightning strikes. Lodge includes his own pioneering studies and proposes practices which were subsequently widely accepted. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. General considerations concerning atmospheric electricity and lightning; 2. General considerations regarding damage by lightning; 3. General considerations concerning conductors for house protection; 4. Further details regarding conductors; 5. Experiments establishing the importance of electrical inertia; 6. General explanation of these experiments; 7. Application of the above mode of experimenting top determine further details; 8. Further experiments; 9. Liability of objects to be struck; 10. Experiments bearing on the 'return stroke' and other unexpected vagaries of lightning; 11. Conclusion of the Society of Arts lecture; 12. Previous experiments of Messrs Hughes and Guillemin, and of Rood; 13. On the theory of lightning conductors; 14. Proceedings of the British Association meeting in Bath; 15. Experimental lightning conductors and other observational matters; 16. Summary and repetition of important points; 17. Instructive extracts from reports of damage by lightning; 18. Practical questions; 19. Discussions; 20. Theory of B circuits, of 'alternative path' experiments, and of side-flash; 21. Resistance and impedance for frequencies comparable to a million per second; 22. On the melting of conductors; 23. On conditions under which points can be preferentially struck in Case B; 24. Electric radiation; 25. On the influence of self-conduction on the rate of discharge of a condenser or cloud; 26. Theory and record of the experiment of the alternative path; 27. Other experiments on the discharge of Leyden jars; 28. Lightning conductors from a modern point of view; 29. On lightning guards for telegraphic purposes , and on the protection of cables from lightning; 30. Reply to criticisms; 31. Construction and use of instruments; Appendices; Index....
