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Lightning rods added to preserve ‘Groom Tree’ at Amherst History Museum

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – The Amherst Historical Society received funding to help preserve a historic sycamore tree that is more than 260 years old outside the Amherst History Museum. Lightning strike ...
WRAL

Cathartic acts of rage, or the rewriting of history? How statues became political lightning rods

Statues are products of one era built to endure into others. They loom over streets and squares while the views of those who pass by change, from generation to generation. Most people, most of the ...
The New York Times

One of the Luckiest Lightning Strikes Ever Recorded

Brazilian researchers captured on camera the brief moment when lightning rods on buildings released an upward discharge to attract incoming lightning. By Nicholas Bakalar Benjamin Franklin invented ...
Inverse

In a wild first, physicists used lasers to control lightning on a mountaintop

Last year marked the 270th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod — but it’s more than a relic of history. The Franklin rod remains in use today because the simple design exploits some ...