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An essay on the cause of lightning, and the manner by which the thunder-clouds become possessed of their electricity, Deduced From Known Facts And Properties Of That Matter. To which are added, Plain directions for constructing and erecting safe conductors.
Simmons, John, active 1775.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Directions for insuring personal safety during storms of thunder and lightning, and for the right application of conductors to houses and other buildings. / By John Leigh, Jun., Esq.
Leigh, John, Esq., Jnr.Date: 1835- Books
Directions for insuring personal safety during storms of thunder and lightning, and for the right application of conductors to houses and other buildings / [John Leigh].
Leigh, John, Esq., Jnr.Date: [1835?]- Books
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A selection of papers on the subject of the fixed lightning conductors to the masts of His Majesty's Navy ... Together with much interesting matter on the subject of electricity / [William Pringle Green].
Green, William Pringle, 1785-1846.Date: 1824- Books
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Experiments concerning the different efficacy of pointed and blunted rods, in securing buildings against the stroke of lightning / [William Henley].
Henley, William.Date: 1774- Books
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Experiments on electricity, being an attempt to shew the advantage of elevated pointed conductors. By Mr. Edward Nairne, F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society, June 18 and 25, 1778.
Nairne, Edward, 1726-1806.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Principles of electricity, containing divers new theorems and experiments, together with an analysis of the superior advantages of high and pointed conductors. This treatise comprehends an explanation of an electrical returning stroke, by which, fatal effects may be produced, even at a vast distance from the place where the lightning falls. By Charles Viscount Mahon, F.R.S.
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816.Date: M.DCC.LXX.IX. [1779]- Books
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Experiments on electricity, : being an attempt to shew the advantage of elevated pointed conductors. / By Mr. Edward Nairne, F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society, June 18 and 25, 1778.
Nairne, Edward, 1726-1806.Date: 1779- Books
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Dell'uso de' conduttori metallici a preservazione degli edifizi contro de' fulmini, nuova apologia. Colla descrizione del conduttore della pubblica specola di Padova / Di Giuseppe Toaldo ... Con una lettera del Sig. Franklin.
Toaldo, Giuseppe, 1719-1797.Date: 1774- Books
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Further observations upon lightning; together with some experiments. By Benjamin Wilson, F.R.S. &c. Communicated to the Royal Society, and rejected in the committee.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A letter to the Marquis of Rockingham, with some observations on the effects of lightening. Read at the Royal Society July 28, and November 8, 1764.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LXV. [1765]- Books
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An account of experiments made at the Pantheon, on the nature and use of conductors: to which are added, some new experiments with the Leyden phial. Read at the meetings of the Royal Society.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
The description of a new lightning conductor ; and observations on the phenomena of the thunder storm / [John Murray].
Murray, John, 1786?-1851Date: 1833- Books
No need for geniuses : revolutionary science in the Age of the Guillotine / Steve Jones.
Jones, Steve, 1944-Date: 2016- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HAR
Date: 1756-1952Reference: MS.8912