explain how lightning conductor protect tall structure from damage due to the lightening
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People generally love thunderstorm. But when it produces the lightning, people get frightened since it can damage their house or kill them if it hits the ground. When the lightning strikes anything on the ground like a building, a tree or a tower, instead going straight down, it spreads along the ground first. So you don’t stand near something that is hit by the lightning, because it can hit the same place again.
In order to protect house or tall building from damage due to the lightning, Benjamin Franklin first discovered a device called the lightning conductor in 1749. It is just a copper strip which is fixed to the outside wall of the building and its lower end put deep in the ground. The other end of the copper strip projects above the highest point of the building with many sharp spikes.
When a thunderstorm began, the clouds become heavily charged. Huge electric sparks, called lightning, often happens between two charged clouds or between a cloud and the earth. If it occurs between a cloud and the earth, it becomes a great concern to man. It generally happens between two heavily charged clouds and activates opposite charge on the highest structure on the ground. As a result, trees, towers and tall buildings may be stroked by the lightning.
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In order to protect house or tall building from damage due to the lightning, Benjamin Franklin first discovered a device called the lightning conductor in 1749. It is just a copper strip which is fixed to the outside wall of the building and its lower end put deep in the ground. The other end of the copper strip projects above the highest point of the building with many sharp spikes.
When a thunderstorm began, the clouds become heavily charged. Huge electric sparks, called lightning, often happens between two charged clouds or between a cloud and the earth. If it occurs between a cloud and the earth, it becomes a great concern to man. It generally happens between two heavily charged clouds and activates opposite charge on the highest structure on the ground. As a result, trees, towers and tall buildings may be stroked by the lightning.
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Lighting conducter is device used to protect a building from the affects of lightning. It is made up of thick strip of metal(usually Cooper)and is fixed above the point of the building.
When lighting strikes,the conductor rather than the building. The electric energy of lightning passes through the metal strip and gets discharged safely into the ground through the burried metal plate. Since,no electric current is produced by lightning,no damage is caused to the building.
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