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Topic: Lightning Rod

Related:
  Rod    Lightning  
  Fishing Rods    Rod End  
  Hot Rod    Street Rod  
  Fly Rod    Lightning Bolt  
  Lightning Strikes    Lightning Protection  
  Lightning Storm    Thunder and Lightning  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):Gas oven,  Power tools,  Bicycle
Most admires:James Watt,  Lee Harvey Oswald,  Alexander Bell
Currently has on their coffee table:Car and Driver magazine
Dream job(s):Interior decorator
Favorite great thinker(s):Alfred Nobel,  Samuel Morse
Interest(s):UFOs
Favorite sport(s):Fishing,  Motor car racing,  Hunting
Likes to wear:Chicken suit
Listens to:Korn
Favorite quote(s):"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
 
 
 Expert Talk
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Angela Berkley,
High School Student

Shortly afterwards thunder cracked and lightning flashed and the rain dropped from the sky like stair rods!
Other lightning victims had been holding metal objects such as golf clubs, fishing rods, hay forks, or umbrellas.
Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

Most lightning protection systems consist of lightning rods and cables that allow the electrical current to travel safely to the ground.
Luigi Pascioni,
Auto Mechanic

Plus LIGHTNING RODS and RELIANT ROBIN racing "Capital Trophy", gird positions determined by pre meeting lap times.
Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster

The proper installation of lightning rods on buildings and trees can save immeasurable amounts of monetary as well as sentimental value by rechannelling the energy of a direct stroke.
Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model

There are 25 lightning rods (24 actual rods plus the tower) on the roof of the Needle to withstand lightning strikes.
Rob Verdann,
Afterdark Removalist

Each joystick controls three sets of electronic lightning rods that maneuver the ranks of players.
Copper strips are connected to existing buildings and electrical earth points and joined to copper rods embedded in the foothill as part of the lightning protection system.
Jake Farley,
Truck Driver

There are air terminals (commonly called lightning rods) on the roof, which are connected to earth through down conductors.
This is why many buildings are equipped with tall metal lightning rods, to channel the electricity into the ground.
Tony Howell,
Skateboarder

Doves and owls flew over the rhododendrons to sit high among the lightning rods on the great tile roof.
One of Lightning Rod's enemies, the Pink Carnation, had done a little research, and found out that Lightning Rod was a drunk.
 
 
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