Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF PLATES
- CHAPTER I General Considerations concerning Atmospheric Electricity and Lightning
- CHAPTER II General Considerations regarding Damage by Lightning
- CHAPTER III General Considerations concerning Conductors for House-protection
- CHAPTER IV Further details regarding Conductors
- CHAPTER V Experiments establishing the importance of Electrical Inertia, and affording a means of comparing the effectiveness of different Conductors
- CHAPTER VI General explanation of these Experiments
- CHAPTER VII Application of the above mode of Experimenting to determine further details
- CHAPTER VIII Further Experiments
- CHAPTER IX Liability of Objects to be struck
- CHAPTER X Experiments bearing on the “Return Stroke” and other unexpected vagaries of Lightning
- CHAPTER XI Conclusion of the Society of Arts Lecture
- CHAPTER XII Previous Experiments of Messrs. Hughes and Guillemin, and of Rood
- CHAPTER XIII On the Theory of Lightning Conductors
- CHAPTER XIV Proceedings at the British Association Meeting in Bath
- CHAPTER XV Experimental Lightning Conductors and other Observational Matters
- CHAPTER XVI Summary and repetition of important points
- CHAPTER XVII Instructive Extracts from Reports of Damage by Lightning
- CHAPTER XVIII Practical Questions
- CHAPTER XIX Discussion
- CHAPTER XX Theory of B Circuits, of “Alternative path” experiments, and of Side-flash
- CHAPTER XXI Resistance and Impedance for Frequencies comparable to a million per second
- CHAPTER XXII On the Melting of Conductors
- CHAPTER XXIII On conditions under which points can be preferentially struck in Case B
- CHAPTER XXIV Electric Radiation
- CHAPTER XXV On the Influence of Self-induction on the Rate of Discharge of a Condenser or Cloud
- CHAPTER XXVI Theory and Record of the Experiment of the Alternative Path
- CHAPTER XXVII Other experiments on the Discharge of Leyden Jars
- CHAPTER XXVIII Lightning Conductors from a modern point of view
- CHAPTER XXIX On Lightning Guards for Telegraphic Purposes, and on the Protection of Cables from Lightning Reply to Criticisms
- CHAPTER XXX Reply to Criticisms
- CHAPTER XXXI Construction and Use of Instruments
- APPENDICES: LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
- Index
CHAPTER XXII - On the Melting of Conductors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2013
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF PLATES
- CHAPTER I General Considerations concerning Atmospheric Electricity and Lightning
- CHAPTER II General Considerations regarding Damage by Lightning
- CHAPTER III General Considerations concerning Conductors for House-protection
- CHAPTER IV Further details regarding Conductors
- CHAPTER V Experiments establishing the importance of Electrical Inertia, and affording a means of comparing the effectiveness of different Conductors
- CHAPTER VI General explanation of these Experiments
- CHAPTER VII Application of the above mode of Experimenting to determine further details
- CHAPTER VIII Further Experiments
- CHAPTER IX Liability of Objects to be struck
- CHAPTER X Experiments bearing on the “Return Stroke” and other unexpected vagaries of Lightning
- CHAPTER XI Conclusion of the Society of Arts Lecture
- CHAPTER XII Previous Experiments of Messrs. Hughes and Guillemin, and of Rood
- CHAPTER XIII On the Theory of Lightning Conductors
- CHAPTER XIV Proceedings at the British Association Meeting in Bath
- CHAPTER XV Experimental Lightning Conductors and other Observational Matters
- CHAPTER XVI Summary and repetition of important points
- CHAPTER XVII Instructive Extracts from Reports of Damage by Lightning
- CHAPTER XVIII Practical Questions
- CHAPTER XIX Discussion
- CHAPTER XX Theory of B Circuits, of “Alternative path” experiments, and of Side-flash
- CHAPTER XXI Resistance and Impedance for Frequencies comparable to a million per second
- CHAPTER XXII On the Melting of Conductors
- CHAPTER XXIII On conditions under which points can be preferentially struck in Case B
- CHAPTER XXIV Electric Radiation
- CHAPTER XXV On the Influence of Self-induction on the Rate of Discharge of a Condenser or Cloud
- CHAPTER XXVI Theory and Record of the Experiment of the Alternative Path
- CHAPTER XXVII Other experiments on the Discharge of Leyden Jars
- CHAPTER XXVIII Lightning Conductors from a modern point of view
- CHAPTER XXIX On Lightning Guards for Telegraphic Purposes, and on the Protection of Cables from Lightning Reply to Criticisms
- CHAPTER XXX Reply to Criticisms
- CHAPTER XXXI Construction and Use of Instruments
- APPENDICES: LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
- Index
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- Lightning Conductors and Lightning GuardsA Treatise on the Protection of Buildings, of Telegraph Instruments and Submarine Cables, and of Electrical Installations Generally, from Damage by Atmospheric Discharges, pp. 250 - 252Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012First published in: 1892