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The Effects of Lightning upon Electric Lamps

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I WISH to add a few remarks to Mr. Webb's description of the way in which his remarkable photographs were obtained, my object being to point out certain features which seem likely to lead towards an explanation of the discharges which take place, simultaneously with lightning flashes in the sky, in the neighbourhood of the electric lamps.

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STOKES, G. The Effects of Lightning upon Electric Lamps. Nature 61, 343–346 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061343b0

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