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AN instructive paper on lightning was read on January 7 by B. L. Goodlet, of the Metropolitan-Vickers Electric Co., Ltd., to the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He discussed lightning first as a physical phenomenon and then gave the elementary theory of direct strokes to transmission circuits. He began by saying that although “Lightning” was the title of the Kelvin Lecture given seven years ago, yet the progress made during the last seven years is at least as great-as that made during the previous seventy. He awarded due credit to the early pioneers, but modern research on the subject has been so intensive in high-tension laboratories, in the upper atmosphere and in connexion with the tens of thousands of miles of high-tension overhead wires now in continuous operation, that the modern research workers have large sources of experimental data from which they can test theories widely accepted in recent years.
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Lightning. Nature 139, 478–479 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139478a0
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