Protection From Lightning (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

McAdie, Alexander

9781334182976: Protection From Lightning (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1334182973 ISBN 13: 9781334182976

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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This book is a seminal work on lightning protection, bringing together scientific principles and practical advice from the turn of the 20th century. The author analyzes statistics regarding lightning-caused fires and human fatalities before detailing the accepted methods for protecting buildings, barns, and churches from lightning strikes. It also includes a discussion of the dangers posed by lightning, debunking common misconceptions and offering guidance on how to stay safe during thunderstorms. Combining a scientist's rigor with a practical approach to a pressing problem, this book remains an important resource for understanding and mitigating the risks associated with lightning.

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Excerpt from Protection From Lightning

At the Aberdeen meeting of the British Association for the Ad vancement of Science Sir William Thomson made the remark, If I urge Glasgow manufacturers to put up lightning rods they say it is cheaper to insure than to do so.

This was the answer given by practical business men, concerned only with questions of profit and loss, to the foremost physicist of our time; and their answer will serve as fairly representing views widely held, founded upon the double belief that the risk from light ning is not so very great and the protection afforded by the present methods not sufficiently certain to warrant implicit confidence and justify the necessary expense.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Protection From Lightning

Sir: In accordance with the direction Of the Honorable the Secre tary of Agriculture, in letter of April 18, 1894, the accompanying paper, entitled Protection from Lightning, is submitted for publi cation as a circular of information. Upon few subjects is the com munity so liable to be misled as the question of the best methods of protecting life and property from lightning. The following pages give statistics of actual losses, the theory of protection in language free from technicalities, a collection of practical rules for guidance in selecting and maintaining conductors, and, finally, a notable illustra tion Of the successful use Of protectors.

The aim Of the paper is to furnish information Of practical value to all classes, and especially to farmers, builders, and physicians.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Verlag: Forgotten Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN 10: 1334182973
ISBN 13: 9781334182976
Einband: Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten: 35
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