Word: lightninged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lightning is a serious menace to electrical apparatus. Temperamentally it is unsuited to laboratory experimentation. One cannot lasso the lightning and cage it in a condenser for study at leisure. But the General Electric Company can now make it to order. Last week Physicist Frank William Peek Jr. announced in...
Just as the positive and negative electric charges are separated and stored in the thunder cloud until the electric potential reaches the breaking point and the lightning is released, so this new generator stores electricity until ready to discharge it in one blinding flash.
The flash lasts a few millionths of a second but years have been spent in building up its strength. Seven years ago the Pittsfield laboratory announced 1,000,000 volts, four years later this figure was doubled. Still the work goes on. The present power, 3,600,000 volts, is...
Despite its brevity, the life line of the lightning flash has been accurately measured by the cathode ray oscillograph. This is an instrument developed by the General Electric Company at Schenectady and makes use of a beam of electrons which, acting as a pointer, measures- the rise & fall, or wave...
Chained lightning will be the means of studying electricity with the hope of protecting life and property against natural lightning; of building transmission lines, transformers, and other electrical apparatus to resist lightning voltages.