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• Lightning conductors
• Early works to 1800

• Unterricht vom Blitz und den Blitz- oder Wetter Ableitern : zur Belehrung und Beruhigung sonderlich der Ungelehrten und des gemeinen Mannes : mit einer Kupfertafel (Bey Adam Gottlieb Schneider, 1784), by Johann Friederich Luz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Del conduttore elettrico posto nel campanile di S. Marco in Venezia : memoria, in cui occasionalmente si ragiona dei conduttori che possono applicarsi ai vascelli, ai magazzini da polvere, ed altri edifizj. (Per li figliuoli del qu. Z. Antonio Pinelli ..., 1776., 1776), by Giuseppe Toaldo and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Circular of information. (Weather bureau, 1894), by United States. Weather Bureau and Alexander McAdie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effets de la foudre sur les arbres et les plantes ligneuses (emploi des arbres comme paratonnerres) ([Genève], 1872), by Daniel Colladon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des blitzableiters (Druck der G. Braun'schen hofbuchdruckerei, 1888), by Heinrich Meidinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des paratonnerres à pointes, à conducteurs et à reccordements terrestres multiples. Description détaillée des paratonnerres établis sur l'Hôtel de ville de Bruxelles en 1865. Exposé des motifs des dispositions adoptées (F. Hayez, 1877), by Louis Henri Frédéric Melsens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamentals of lightning protection and Westinghouse lightning protective devices ([Schenectady? N.Y.], 1946), by Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Edward Beck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lightning conductors and lightning guards. : A treatise on the protection of buildings, of telegraph instruments and submarine cables, and of electric installations generally, from damage by atmospheric discharges (Whittaker and Co., 1892), by Oliver Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern lightning conductors; an illustrated supplement to the Report of the Lightning Research Committee of 1905, with notes as to the methods of protection & specifications. (C. Lockwood & son, 1905), by Killingworth Hedges and London Lightning Research Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical treatise on lightning protection ... (Van Nostrand, 1883), by Henry W. Spang (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on atmospherical electricity ; including lightning rods, and paragrêles. (Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830), by John Murray (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lightning conductors : their history, nature, and mode of application (E. & F.N. Spon ..., 1880), by Richard Anderson and Bern Dibner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aux amateurs de physique sur l'utilité des paratonnerres (De l'Imprimerie de l'Institution des sourds-muets, sous la direction d'Ange Clo ..., 1809), by M. Beyer and Institution des sourds-muets (Paris) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on lightning conductors (G.P. Putnam, 1853), by Lucius Lyon, Henry Minchin Noad, and W. Snow Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plain directions for the construction and erection of lightning-rods. (The Industrial publication company, 1879), by John Phin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boiler and factory chimneys, their draught-power and stability, with a chapter on lightning conductors (C. Lockwood, 1899), by Robert Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern lightning conductors: an illustrated supplement to the Report of the Lightning Research Committee of 1905, also the Phoenix Fire Office 1910 rules, with notes as to the methods of protection and specifications. (C. Lockwood, 1910), by Killingworth Hedges and London Lightning Research Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Protection from lightning (Weather bureau, 1894), by Alexander McAdie and United States. Weather Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lightning Rod Conference : report of the delegates from the following societies, viz. : Meteorological Society, Royal Institute of British Architects, Society of Telegraph Engineers and of Electricians, Physical Society, co-opted members (E. & F.N. Spon, 1882), by Lightning Rod Conference (1878-1881) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lynaflederen : en Vejledning særlig for Landmænd (Schubotheske Boghandel, 1894), by Jacob Appel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traite des paratonnerres : leur utilite, leur théorie, leur construction (Ducher et cie., 1874), by A. Callaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lightning conductors, their history, nature, and mode of application (E. & F. N. Spon, 1885), by Richard Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lightning, thunder and Lightning conductors. With an appendix on the recent controversy on lightning conductors. (The Humboldt Publishing Co., 1890), by Gerald Molloy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The description of a new lightning conductor ; and observations on the phenomena of the thunder storm. (S. Highley, 1833), by John Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shipwreck by lightning. Papers relative to Harris lightning conductors. (Printed by Sleeper & Rogers, 1853), by R. B. Forbes and W. Snow Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuel de l'électricité atmosphérique : comprenant les instructions nécessaires pour établir les paratonnerres et les paragrêles (A la librairie Encyclopédique de Robet, 1831), by John Murray and Anatole Riffault (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical treatise on lightning protection. (Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1877), by Henry W. Spang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Protection against lightning (Govt. print. off., 1915), by Orville Sherwin Peters and United States. National Bureau of Standards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instruction sur les paratonnerres (Chez F.G. Levrault, libraire ..., 1824), by Académie royale des sciences (France) and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tentative standard for the construction and installation of materials for lightning rod equipments. (Hildman printing co.], 1916), by Underwriters' Laboratories (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lightning and lightning conductors (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1909), by Alfred J. Henry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Protection of buildings and farm property from lightning (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1950), by Roy N. Covert, Louis P. Harrison, and Harry L. Garver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Electrostatic protection of the solar power satellite and rectenna (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ;, 1980), by George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Rice University, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Protection of buildings from lightning (Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, 1907), by A. R. Sawyer and L. J. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Protection of ships from lightning, according to principles established (Printed by Sleeper & Rogers, 1848), by W. Snow Harris and R. B. Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on atmospherical electricity (Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830), by John Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die Blitzableiter : eine Abhandlung auf höchsten Befehl des Fürsten (Gedruckt bey Michael Macklot ... , 1791), by Johann Lorenz Boeckmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official correspondence on the subject of attaching lightning conductors to powder magazines. (John Gray, "Calcutta gazette" Office, 1857), by India. Public Works Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Anlegung der Blitzableiter : zu sicherem Schutze von Thürmen, Kirchen, Schlössern, öffentlichen Gebäuden, Pulvermagazinen und Pulvermühlen, Telegraphenleitungen, Seeschiffen und Privatwohnungen : nach den im Jahre 1823 von Gay-Lussac, ferner im Jahre 1854 und 1855 von Pouillet ausgearbeiteten und von der französischen Academie der Wissenschaften genehmigten und bekannt gemachten Instructionen, mit Benutzung der neuesten in Amerika, England und Deutschland über diesen Gegenstand gesammelten Erfahrungen, übersetzt und zusammengestellt (B. F. Voigt, 1856), by Chr. Heinr. Schmidt and B. F. Voigt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Herstellung und Prüfung von Gebäude-Blitzableitern. Ein kurzgefasster Leitfaden für Schlosser, Spengler und Angehörige verwandter Gewerbe. (F. Deuticke, 1913), by Ernst von Braun von Braunthal and Alfred Wogrinz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vereinfachte Blitzableiter. (J. Springer, 1912), by Sigwart Ruppel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Electric (Rand, McNally & co., printers, 1871), by John M. Mott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paratonnerres. (F. Hayez ..., 1882), by E. Rousseau and Louis Henri Frédéric Melsens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blitz und Blitz-Schutzvorrichtungen (A. Hartleben's Verlag, 1886), by Alfred Urbanitzky and Burndy Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lightning and other high-voltage phenomena. ([Washington], 1926), by F. W. Peek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experiments in small rocket deployment of 1000-foot-long electrically conducting filaments (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Air Force Systems, United States Air Force, 1973., 1973), by Charles B. Kalakowsky, Edward A. Lewis, Roger W. Whidden, and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tests of long wire deployment from supersonic rockets (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1973., 1973), by Charles B. Kalakowsky, Edward A. Lewis, George C. Hirst, and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical treatise on lightning-conductors. Explaining the defects of the lightning-conductors now erected, and showing how metal roofs, or sheet-metal bands beneath wooden or slate roofs, and the ordinary rain-pipes, will prevent buildings from being destroyed or damaged by lightning discharges. (Electrotyped by J. Fagan & son, 1878), by Henry W. Spang (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on lightning conductors comp. from a work on thunderstorms (G.P. Putnam, 1853), by Lucius Lyon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lightning, Thunder and Lightning Conductors, by Gerald Molloy (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lightning Rod Conference: Report of the Delegates from the Following Societies, Viz.: Meteorological Society, Royal Institute of British Architects, Society of Telegraph Engineers and of Electricians, Physical Society. With a Code of Rules for the Erection of Lightning Conductors; and Various Appendices, ed. by G. J. Symons (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lightning Conductors: Their History, Nature, and Mode of Application, by Richard Anderson (Gutenberg ebook)

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