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Lightning-Stroke Discharges in the Laboratory

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DURING the past decade, investigators have made many attempts towards producing effects in the laboratory simulating in a measure the lightning discharges observed in the field. The natural outcome of high-impulse voltage and heavy impulse current generators has been the combination of the two into a lightning - stroke generator. This combination has been accomplished at the Sharon High Voltage Laboratory.

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BELLASCHI, P. Lightning-Stroke Discharges in the Laboratory. Nature 137, 491–492 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137491a0

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