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Sports arenas of the future could be protected by water cannons – not to control rampaging fans, but to deflect lightning strikes. In June, a group of American engineers plan to fire supersonic jets ...
MR. H. C. BROWNE, in a letter on the early use of the lightning conductor (NATURE, Aug. 15, p. 242), quotes the “Tableau de Paris”. Readers of NATURE may wish to refer to this interesting work. The ...
Playwright Tom Stoppard, in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," provides one of the best definitions of science: "The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defense against the ...
CAN any of your readers refer me to the sources of some of the late Mr. Richard Anderson's information with regard to the early history of the lightning-conductor? (1) On p. 27 of the third edition ...
A single stroke of lightning lasts only a fraction of a second, yet in that instant it heats the air around it to a temperature far beyond anything on the surface of the Sun. The channel of a ...