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
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2] it is necessary the electric fluid should, in the various states of the atmosphere, be accumu- lated, before a discharge takes place, — of the immediate causes of these discharges,—or how they may be accelerated or retarded, — on these points we possess only a few general ideas, un- satisfactory and insufficient for well-warranted conclusions. In most cases it happens, that we hear the rumbling of the distant thunder, and watch the lightning as it gradually comes nearer ; and it is under such circumstances that the pre- cautions to which attention has been here di- rected, may be, and ought to be, adopted. Hitherto, it will be observed, allusion has been made to such accidents only as happen out of doors: and as the general practice of taking shelter under trees, or against the outside walls of buildings, stacks, &c., has been condemned, it will be naturally asked, What, then, must be