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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIII, Issue 37, 10 January 1896, Page 29

Although it has always been asserted that Franklin constructed the first lightning rod, it is oow ascertained that this honour belongs to a monk named Prohop Delwish, who sot up the first lightning rod at Seuttenbury, Bohemia, says the Emerald. His apparatus was made and put together during the spring and summer of the year 1754, and was first set up in the garden of the cure of Preodi'z (Moravia), June 15th of the year above named. The rod attained as much distinction as that later made by Franklin, and was the cause of the inventor being presented with much money and large estates Hi* enemies claimed that the rod was the cause of the great drought of 1757, 1758 and 1759, and upon the matter being reported to Vienna it was ordered to be taken down.

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