Is there anything Ben Franklin didn't invent? Bifocals, odometers, swim fins, political cartoons, batteries, Franklin stoves and, of course, the first lightning rod were all results of Franklin's ...

A $20 million exterior makeover of the Massachusetts State House includes the installation of lightning rods for the first time in the building's 215-year history. One of those lightning rods is being ...

I had been noticing a whole series of lightning rods mounted on roof peaks at a nearby shopping mall. They all looked like this: Figure 1 Lightning rod mounted on roof peak. I wondered what purpose ...