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

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

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

Stumbling through the débris that covered the floor, Bucks made his way to the operator’s table and put his hand up to cut in the lightning arrester.

From The Mountain Divide by Both, Armand

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