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 Chapman, Allen
Don't fail to use a lightning arrester, or better, a lightning switch, for your receiving set.
From The Radio Amateur's Hand Book by Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)
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 Both, Armand
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
