Lightning rod

Lightning Arrester Outdoor Lightning Protection Stainless Steel ESE Lightning Rod

For centuries, lightning rods have tamed the heavens, more or less unchanged. An <a href="http://objectsobjectsobjects.com/">Object Lesson</a>.

A lightning protection system functions by intercepting the direct lightning strike energy as it hits near a structure and safely diverting it to the Earth. Lightning phenomena is roughly based on the discharge of huge charge regions high in the atmosphere into the Earth. If you are considering lightning rod protection, your best bet is to talk to a lightning protection specialist such as LEC as every site and budget will have different considerations.

Conductors are materials that allow electrons/electricity to easily flow through them. Electrons are loosely bound to their atoms. Examples of conductors are humans, metal, salt water. This picture of a lightning rod is an example of a conductor because the lightning rod will allow electrons to easily flow through it if the rod gets struck by lightning. ( I got this picture from the internet)

Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod - a metal rod that boosts the energy level of any device to which it is attached.

Occasionally, photography is used to capture the exact second that mankind reached into its giant bag of fucks to give and found it completely empty.

I saw this yesterday – hundred year-old technology – made me glad I took a camera with me on my walk.