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lightning arrester

NOUN
lightning rod
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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

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 Kempster Miller

But talking of radio reminds me that we ought to get busy with that lightning arrester we were talking about.”

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

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 Allen Chapman

“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


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