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The flight of thunderbolts

Title
The flight of thunderbolts / by Sir Basil Schonland, C.B.E., F.R.S.
Author
Schonland, Basil, Sir, 1896-1972
Publication
  • Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1964.
  • ©1964

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Description
182 pages, vi plates : illustrations, portrait, plates; 23 cm
Subject
  • Lightning
  • Lightning > Study and teaching > History
  • Lightning-arresters
  • Thunderstorms
  • Lightning
  • Foudre
  • Parafoudres
  • Orages
  • Foudre > Étude et enseignement > Histoire
  • lightning
  • thunderstorms
  • Lightning-arresters
  • Thunderstorms
  • Astrofisica
  • Thunder
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • "Incorporating the Gregynog lectures delivered in 1960 at the University College of Aberystwyth."
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 177.
Contents
1. Before the lightning-rod -- 2. The invention of the lightning-rod by Benjamin Franklin -- 3. The forms taken by lightning and some of its effects -- 4. The luminous processes involved in the lightning-flash -- 5. The electrical processes in the lightning-discharge -- 6. Protection against lightning -- 7. The electrification of thunderclouds -- 8. The indirect and distant effects of thunderstorms.
LCCN
65001110
OCLC
  • ocm00490276
  • 490276
  • SCSB-125264
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library