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IN 1933 a considerable amount of investigation had already taken place, chiefly outside Great Britain, with the view of determining, by means of special devices called klydonographs, the effects of lightning discharges upon overhead lines. The klydonograph is an instrument in which an electric discharge takes place on to a photographic plate or film, the resulting impression affording a record of the characteristics of the discharge. The advent of the National Grid in Great Britain stimulated interest in the subject. Whilst it was seen that the published information from various countries could be usefully applied, it was also realized that, as the results were dependent on so many variables, this needed great care, and that a similar and independent investigation could with advantage be carried out in Britain.
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Developments in Electric Surge Recording. Nature 145, 982 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145982a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145982a0