Show electricity known of old A writer in the An cites many incidents to shaw that electricity was not unknown to the th ancients and that george ebers sug ue in a novel that the egyptians Egypt iana made use of lightning conductors conductor was wag well founded instruments much like the lie modern heliograph were also used the ahe writer says by priests as a means of communication between temples there can be no doubt he says as to the temple having been protected by lightning rods the biblical description on shows that the root roof was provided with metallic points held aloft by columns and that these ending in chains in great water tanks iia adds all of which is vouched couched for in the first book of kings and the second book of chronicles |