Lightning strikes hit anywhere so one expert goes over what Arizona homeowners can do to protect their houses from lightning.

The body in this case is a poor conductor compared with the rod, and remains unaffected, like the building which is thoroughly protected by a lightning-rod. Having decided upon the size of our rod ...

T hough lightning is supposed never to strike twice in the same place, and might be supposed by now to have struck each & every place in the U. S., the U. S. lightning rod industry continues ...

Scientists were able to create a virtual lightning rod using a large, powerful laser on top of a mountain in northeastern Switzerland, successfully diverting the path of lightning strikes.

When lightning strikes a building it will preferably pass through the rod — the path of least resistance — and then through the wires into the ground, protecting the building and its contents ...

Lightning rods, dating back to Franklin's time, are metal rods atop buildings, connected to the ground with a wire, that conduct electric charges lightning strikes harmlessly into the ground.

Use lightning rods to save ... tropical trees are down to lightning” (27 June, p40). One way to reduce this toll could be to fit such trees with cheap lightning conductors. Issue no. 3294 ...

This 3-D reconstruction models a lightning strike captured by high-speed cameras in July 2021. It shows the moment that the lightning bolt hit a metal rod atop a tower, its path guided through the ...