lightning arrester

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A lightning arrester no bigger than a quart-size fruit jar receives the bolt, discharges it harmlessly through its coils.

From Time Magazine Archive

To protect the house and your apparatus from lightning insert a fuse and a little carbon block lightning arrester such as are used by the telephone company in their installations of house phones.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John

Of course on an indoor aerial there’s no need of a lightning arrester.

From The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room by Chapman, Allen

The fault was found in a lightning arrester which one of the operators had neglected in the cable hut.

From A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route by Russel, Florence Kimball

But talking of radio reminds me that we ought to get busy with that lightning arrester we were talking about.”

From The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room by Chapman, Allen