Introductory material
Reading edition
Theory of Lightning Conductors Challenged—Lectures of Professor Lodge—Short Account of his Views and Arguments—Effect of Self-Induction on a Lightning Rod—Experiment on the Discharge of a Leyden Jar—Outer Shell only of a Lightning Rod Acts as a Conductor—Discussion at the Meeting of the British Association, September, 1888—Statement by Mr. Preece—Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Thomson—Professor Rowland and Professor Forbes—M. de Fonvielle, Sir James Douglass, and Mr. Symons—Reply of Professor Lodge—Concluding Remarks of Professor Fitzgerald, President of the Section—Summary Showing the Present State of the Question