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
The fault was found in a lightning arrester which one of the operators had neglected in the cable hut.
From A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route by Russel, Florence Kimball
To protect the house and your apparatus from lightning insert a fuse and a little carbon block lightning arrester such as are used by the telephone company in their installations of house phones.
From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John
“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 Chapman, Allen
Explain the reason for placing an impedance in connection with the lightning arrester.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster
