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Ships' Protection Against Lightning

"A variation on Ben Franklin's lightning rod was the first protection given ships against lightning... But the great breakthrough didn't come until 1846 when Sir William Snow Harris found that the best lightning protection was to make the masts themselves conductors by attaching copper strips to them from top to bottom and connecting the copper strips to copper plates nailed to the hull and keel." - excerpt from the Ocean Almanac, by Robert Hendrickson, published by Doubleday, 1984, pg. 344.

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