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Show Lightning Not Zigzag Down to the middle of the Nineteenth Nine-teenth century people did not even know what lightning looks like! For nges artists had been drawing and painting It In zigzag streaks, with Ehnrp angles. In 1858 James Nn-smyth, Nn-smyth, the famous Scottish engineer, expressed doubts about the existence of such lightning, says Nature Magazine Maga-zine of Washington. Shortly afterward after-ward lightning began to be phofo-X phofo-X graphed, and It was thus found never to be angular, but always mors of less sinuous, like a rivjr with numer jus branches. |