A Chapter on Thunder and Lightning, Their Causes and Effects

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Excerpt from A Chapter on Thunder and Lightning, Their Causes and Effects: Together With a Description of David Munson's Copper Tubular Lightning Rod, With Spiral Flanges, as a Perfect Protection Against the Disasters of ElectricityWith this startling admonition before him, let any one of the readers of these observations pause for a moment and count the number of lightning-rods in his own neighborhood.Does he hesitate? He thinks there may be one on the village Spire, and perhaps another on yon tall chimney, but where else, he knows not. N ow, he is led to ask, What is the cause of this apparent neglect? Why this consumate audacity in tri¿ing with the eternal laws of Nature by erecting monuments and inviting down the fire of heaven, and providing no means of conducting it safely away?Although the extreme magnitude of accidents by lightning cannot be otherwise than recognized by all, and the almost certainty of some one or more buildings being the marked vic tims at every season, yet each man builds with the chance of his edifice not being the fatal one. Amongst so many, the chances are so much in his favor that he will run the risk, or else he comes to the still more unphilosophical conclusion that.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.