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

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 Miller, Kempster

Of course on an indoor aerial there’s no need of a lightning arrester.

From The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room by Chapman, Allen

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

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 Pag?, Victor Wilfred