Title: Protection of life and property against lightning,
Authors: Peters, Orville Sherwin, 1883-; United States.
Publisher: Govt. print. off.,
Year: 1915
Subjects: Lightning; Lightning conductors.
Contents: Introduction -- Desirability of protection against lightning -- Efficiency of lightning rods -- Some points of disagreement among various authorities -- Characteristics of lightning flashes -- Relative liability to damage by lightning of different classes of buildings and other forms of property -- Materials and construction of lightning rods -- Earth connections for lightning rods -- Aerial teminals with points for lightning rods -- Arrangement of rods and aerial terminals on buildings and the interconnection of metallic masses -- Questions of cost -- Protection of livestock in fields -- Safeguarding human life -- Sum\ary -- Appendixes: I. Rules concerning the installation and maintenance of lightning rods -- II. First aid to persons injured by lightning -- III. Bibliography.