Benjamin Franklin first proposed the lightning rod that is still widely used today to protect buildings from lightning strikes in around 1750. The rod or lightning conductor is a large metal rod ...

The Lightning Rod helps you get the Shocked mutation on your crops during thunderstorms. It basically attracts lightning to your plants, and when that happens, the crop’s value increases by 100x.

Houard anticipated that 10 to 15 years more work would be needed before the Laser Lightning Rod can enter common use. One concern is avoiding interference with airplanes in flight.

But the protection zone of Franklin rods is relative to their height — a lightning rod with a height of 10 meters (32.8 feet) protects an area with a 10-meter radius.

EDMONDS -- With all the lightning flashing across the Western Washington skies Saturday, if you happened you be on a ferry boat, you might have felt a little vulnerable being out in the middle of ...

You say that “half of the deaths of large 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.

The whole country became lightning-rod-minded. In 1885 a body of scientific men studied the Washington Monument, already hit a few times, and recommended conductors for it.

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 ...

Spratt described an metal alloy to be used "for the manufacture of spears and the points of lightning conductors." Spratt also patented an "Improvement in Attachments for Lightning-Conductors," US ...