Lightning Conductors and Lightning Guards : A Treatise on the Protection of Buildings, of Telegraph Instruments and Submarine Cables, and of Electrica (Paperback)

Preface; 1. General considerations concerning atmospheric electricity and lightning; 2. General considerations regarding damage by lightning; 3. General considerations concerning conductors for house protection; 4. Further details regarding conductors; 5. Experiments establishing the importance of electrical inertia; 6. General explanation of these experiments; 7. Application of the above mode of experimenting top determine further details; 8. Further experiments; 9. Liability of objects to be struck; 10. Experiments bearing on the 'return stroke' and other unexpected vagaries of lightning; 11. Conclusion of the Society of Arts lecture; 12. Previous experiments of Messrs Hughes and Guillemin, and of Rood; 13. On the theory of lightning conductors; 14. Proceedings of the British Association meeting in Bath; 15. Experimental lightning conductors and other observational matters; 16. Summary and repetition of important points; 17. Instructive extracts from reports of damage by lightning; 18. Practical questions; 19. Discussions; 20. Theory of B circuits, of 'alternative path' experiments, and of side-flash; 21. Resistance and impedance for frequencies comparable to a million per second; 22. On the melting of conductors; 23. On conditions under which points can be preferentially struck in Case B; 24. Electric radiation; 25. On the influence of self-conduction on the rate of discharge of a condenser or cloud; 26. Theory and record of the experiment of the alternative path; 27. Other experiments on the discharge of Leyden jars; 28. Lightning conductors from a modern point of view; 29. On lightning guards for telegraphic purposes , and on the protection of cables from lightning; 30. Reply to criticisms; 31. Construction and use of instruments; Appendices; Index.