Abstract
THE subject of lightning protection is one of considerable importance to architects, and a book in which the existing information thereon is conveniently collated is therefore to be welcomed. Mr. Killingworth Hedges's long association with this very special branch of electrical engineering enables him to write with authority. The book may be regarded as a very useful work of reference on the subject, as it contains a summary of the recommendations of the lightning research committee of 1905, together with numerous extracts from the observers' reports on buildings which had been struck by lightning, which served as the basis on which the committee drew up its suggestions. These extracts are copiously illustrated and the faults in the details of the protection in each case are clearly pointed out. The book is enlivened by the last chapter, which gives several instances of peculiar results of lightning strokes.
Modern Lightning Conductors.
By Killingworth Hedges. Pp. viii + 119. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1905.) Price 6s. 6d. net.
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Modern Lightning Conductors . Nature 73, 340 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/073340c0
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