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
Don't fail to use a lightning arrester, or better, a lightning switch, for your receiving set.
From The Radio Amateur's Hand Book by Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)
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
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
