lightning arrester
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A lightning arrester no bigger than a quart-size fruit jar receives the bolt, discharges it harmlessly through its coils.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Why, you thick heads,” replied Jimmy, with more force than politeness, “don’t you know that you don’t have to have a lightning arrester with a loop aerial?”
From The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room by Allen Chapman
It includes the local wiring within the premises of the subscriber and also the lightning arrester and other protective devices, if such exist.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Kempster Miller
The simple principles of switchboard construction, the development of the switchboard, the connections of the various instruments, including the lightning arrester, are also plainly set forth.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
Stumbling through the débris that covered the floor, Bucks made his way to the operator’s table and put his hand up to cut in the lightning arrester.
From The Mountain Divide by Armand Both
