“WHO would have thought that man would succeed in drawing off the lightning and conducting it to an outlet?” The quotation is taken from one of a series of small octavo volumes, written certainly by ...

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IN the Edinburgh Review of last July many of your readers will probably have noticed an article on “Lightning-Conductors,” written somewhat strongly from the point of view of an advocate of the ...