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2. Lightning rod - Wikipedia

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   A lightning protection system includes a network of air terminals, bonding conductors, and ground electrodes designed to provide a low impedance path to ground for potential strikes. Lightning protection systems are used to prevent lightning strike damage to structures. Lightning protection systems mitigate the fire hazard which lightning ...

3. Roger K. Furse - Wikipedia

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   Roger Furse was the son of Lieutenant General Sir William Furse and Jean Adelaide Evans-Gordon. He was educated at St George's School, Windsor Castle, at Eton College and at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. [2] Furse began working as a stage designer in 1934, but he did not work on films until the early 1940s. [3]

4. Cynthia Furse - Wikipedia

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   Cynthia M. Furse (née Mahoney, [1] born 1963) is an American electrical engineer, the director of graduate studies and a distinguished professor in the University of Utah Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. [2]

5. William Snow Harris - Wikipedia

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   The lightning rod invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1752 suggested a way of avoiding the common problem of lightning causing damage to the wooden sailing ships of the period. In Britain, the Royal Navy chose a protection system with a chain draped into the sea from the top of the mast as a lightning conductor. This system proved unsatisfactory ...

6. William Furse - Wikipedia

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   Lieutenant General Sir William Thomas Furse, KCB, KCMG, DSO (21 April 1865 – 31 May 1953) was a senior British Army officer who served as Master-General of the Ordnance during the First World War. [ 2 ]

7. Lightning-prediction system - Wikipedia

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   Lightning protection systems are often installed in outdoor areas which are often congested with people, lack sufficient shelter, and are difficult to evacuate quickly (such as water parks, college campuses, and large swimming pool or athletic field complexes). These locations are particularly dangerous during lightning storms.

8. George Armand Furse - Wikipedia

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   The grave of George Armand Furse in Aldershot Military Cemetery. Colonel George Armand Furse CB (23 August 1834 – 3 April 1906) was a British Army officer and author.. He was a colonel in the 42nd Royal Highlanders Black Watch and author of The Art of Marching (1901), Information in War: its Acquisition and Transmission (1895), [1] Mobilization and Embarkation of an Army Corps (1883 ...

9. Lightning arrester - Wikipedia

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   Powerline worker performs maintenance of a lightning arrester on an electrical transmission tower in New Brunswick, Canada. A lightning arrester (alternative spelling lightning arrestor) (also called lightning isolator) is a device, essentially an air gap between an electric wire and ground, used on electric power transmission and telecommunication systems to protect the insulation and ...