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

Proper Functions:—A fuse is not a good lightning arrester.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster

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

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)