LIGHTNING TO ORDER
One of the most serious of all menaces to the wonderful Grid system which carries electricity for miles across the countryside is the sudden lightning flash In an instant it may cause a blackout over a wide area, and may result in serious damage. Scientists are now studying lightning in the high voltage laboratory at Queen Mary College in the University of London, and their experiments are directed toward discovering methods of protecting the Grid from lightning and thereby saving a great British industry from heavy loss. It may never be possible completely to safeguard a Grid transformer from lightning, but already much has been discovered which enables manufacturers of electric apparatus to counteract soma of the effects; and these researches have been possible owing to the wonderful nnnaratus with which the scientists ara able to manufacture laboratory light* ning to order.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23109, 6 August 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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145LIGHTNING TO ORDER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23109, 6 August 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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