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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN and Michael Faraday were until recently the only major contributors to the problem of preventing lightning damage to man-made structures. The ‘Franklin Rod’ and the ‘Faraday Cage’ systems both afford a more conductive path to earth for the lightning strike than that supplied by the structure they are intended to protect.
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GILLESPIE, P. Ionizing Radiation: a Potential Lightning Hazard?. Nature 208, 577–578 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/208577a0
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