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      Lightning Rod Conference

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066134662

Table of Contents

       ILLUSTRATIONS.

       PREFACE.

       Class of Facts most Required.

       REPORT.

       Section I. — The purpose which a Lightning Conductor is intended to serve.

       Section II. — A Statement of those features in the construction and erection of Lightning Conductors, respecting which there has been, or is, a difference of opinion, and the final decision of the Conference thereupon.

       Section III. — Code of Rules for the Erection of Lightning Conductors.

       APPENDIX A. CIRCULAR AND QUESTIONS ISSUED TO Manufacturers of Lightning Conductors, AND THEIR REPLIES THERETO.

       CIRCULAR. LIGHTNING ROD CONFERENCE.

       QUESTIONS.

       REPLIES.

       APPENDIX B. ANALYSIS OF, AND REMARKS UPON, THE VIEWS OF MANUFACTURERS.

       1. Form, dimensions, and material usually adopted for upper terminals.

       2. The Material and Dimensions of the Conductor.

       3. Is there any definite proportion between the length and sectional area of the conductor?

       4. Joints, how made.

       5. Attachment to building, how made.

       6. Ground connection, how formed, and of what extent.

       7. Extent of area supposed to be protected.

       8. If there is more than one terminal, is the size of the conductor increased?

       APPENDIX C. REPLY FROM MANUFACTURERS, RECEIVED AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE ANALYSIS WHICH FORMS APPENDIX B.

       REPLIES TO THE QUESTIONS OF THE LIGHTNING-ROD CONFERENCE.

       DETAILS OF LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS APPLIED TO NOTTINGHAM CASTLE.

       APPENDIX D. REPORT OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS TO THE LIGHTNING ROD CONFERENCE.

       CIRCULAR.

       REPLIES TO CIRCULAR.

       APPENDIX E. PARTICULARS OF ACCIDENTS BY LIGHTNING COLLECTED IN THE YEARS 1857, 1858 AND 1859 BY MR. SYMONS, AND REPORT UPON THE SAME BY PROF. W. E. AYRTON.

       Selected accidents.

       APPENDIX F. ABSTRACTS OF PRINTED DOCUMENTS.

       FRENCH OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS.

       REPORT made to the ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, by Franklin , Leroy , Coulomb , de la Place , and Rochon .

       REPORT made to the NATIONAL INSTITUTE, by Leroy , La Place , and Coulomb , on a Lightning Rod for Powder Magazines proposed by Regnier .

       INSTRUCTIONS for erecting Lightning Rods for Powder Magazines , adopted by the Fortifications Committee .

       REPORT on the foregoing Instructions made by La Place , Rochon , Charles , Montgolfier , and Gay Lussac to the National Institute .

       INSTRUCTIONS about LIGHTNING RODS adopted by the Academy of Sciences.

       REPORT on the points of upper terminals made by Messrs. Delieul, by a Committee consisting of MM. Becquerel , Babinet , Duhamel , Despretz , Cagniard de Latour , Regnault , de Senarmont , and Pouillet .

       INSTRUCTIONS upon LIGHTNING RODS for POWDER MAGAZINES, by a Committee consisting of MM. Becquerel , Babinet , Duhamel , Fizeau , Edm Becquerel , Regnault , le Maréchal Vaillant , and Pouillet .

       INSTRUCTIONS by the Committee consisting of MM. Alphand , Belgrand , Fizeau , Comte du Moncel , Ed. Becquerel , Desains , Ch. Sainte Claire-Deville , Duc , Ballu , Magne , Davioud , Felix Lucas , and R. Francisque Michel , appointed to inspect the Lightning Rods on the Municipal Buildings of Paris .

       REPORT by the joint Secretary (Francisque Michel) of the Lightning Rod Committee to the Prefect of the Department of the Seine .

       INSTRUCTIONS as to the application of LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS for protection of POWDER MAGAZINES, ETC.