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
It includes the local wiring within the premises of the subscriber and also the lightning arrester and other protective devices, if such exist.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster
Proper Functions:—A fuse is not a good lightning arrester.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster
Explain the reason for placing an impedance in connection with the lightning arrester.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster
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
