Word: mceachron
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Pittsfield have been puttering with artificial lightning for 20 years. They have produced 10,000,000 volts (at comparatively low amperage) in a single discharge. Karl Boyer McEachron, 44, designer of the high-amperage apparatus which he demonstrated last week, has been at Pittsfield for twelve years. His spectacular experiments are useful for testing purposes, for studying the destructive effects of natural lightning and means of combating them. When he is not in the laboratory he troops up & down the country lecturing on lightning...
...protecting rural homes and buildings, Mr. McEachron declares a good lightning rod is effective 99 times in 100. In use since Benjamin Franklin's time, lightning rods and the glib agents who sold them were long in disfavor with farmers because so many rod-equipped structures were struck by bolts and burned. But this was found due in almost every case to faulty installation. Nine-tenths of the deaths caused by lightning in the U. S. (some 50 per year) occur in the country. Cities are much safer because big buildings, with steel frames acting as lightning rods...