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RECENT laboratory researches on impulsive rushes of electricity produced by high-voltage discharges of condensers have proved of great value by leading to improvements in the methods used in protecting buildings and overhead wires from damage by lightning strokes. The discharge in the laboratory is very similar to the lightning stroke in Nature. The sound produced, although the arc is only a few feet long, is uncomfortable and often painful to the ear. Anyone taken unawares by a laboratory discharge occurring a few feet away might be seriously affected by the blinding light and the deafening noise produced.
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Lightning Stroke Currents. Nature 136, 961 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136961a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136961a0