Show LIGHTNING ROD vindicated experiments of sir oliver lodge prove that copper conductors attract the destructive bolts dolts dunles some som ln am bentte en the g genius compa COMPS forward with a method by which a wet r string mai be made to do serece as a lightning rod the z recent 13 1 given b sir allier lod lodge be before the london institute af e architects raa ma eventually lead to the restoration of 0 th higly highly profitable times of the lightn ing rod bent abent a hia ills demonstrations gf goto shoy t atiat bat this gentleman 0 smooth oth language lansu age waa tar far from being mleta en in his ants that his copp r tipped upped rods wo id draw the electric bolts irom from their course of 0 destruction the trou brou ble wag was that they were too go gord od in his experiments he aed three dif dI Ferent lerent substances as conduct conductors orF copper iron and a wet string while copper was ras the moat in tente and rapid conductor it produce I 1 a sharp crack at the flash and by the intensity of its action that it was likely to set up a side flash which in v protected buildings has been the origin 0 of most of the lightning which have reel rest cited in the loss of faith on tha the part of the people in the veracity i of the much maligned lightning rod man iron took the bolt with less noise and the wet string with hardly any et the latter was ode offic ent in protecting the two other con doctors wet string is of course imps bible in practice but sir oliver main tallied that iron was quite as efficient a conductor as copper and far more afe safe in 0 o tar far as it did away with the bide side flash his conclusion was the trial showed that co copper p per as a lightning conductor should be dismissed with costs should it be possible to convince the american house holders of the correctness of nis ni N le s the practical outcome of the demon atra stra tion may be the revival of the lightning wing rod industry with iron as a a substitute tor for copper |