Development of the lightning discharge

ABSTRACT SOME months ago, B. F. J. Schonland and H. Collens1 published several important photographs of lightning discharges taken by a Boys' camera, that is, two lenses fixed at

opposite points of a circle and revolving rapidly about its centre. In a further communication, with D. F. Malan, published in NATURE2, a brief account is given of some further results with

their camera. The most important point which emerges from a consideration of their new photographs is that there is a characteristic difference between the predischarges of the first stroke

of a lightning flash and those of the subsequent strokes of the flash along the same track. While the latter predischarges are of a continuously moving character and travel from cloud to

ground generally in less than 1/1,000 of a second, the former move from the cloud in a discontinuous step by step manner and take a comparatively long time to reach the ground, sometimes

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REFERENCES * _Proc. Roy. Soc._, A, 143, 654; 1934. * _NATURE_, 134, 177, Aug. 4, 1934. * _Ann. Phys. und Chem._, 6, 636; 1898. 68, 776; 1899. * _Ann. Phys._, 10, 393; 1903. A more detailed

account appeared in _Jahrbuch d. Hamburg, wiss. Anstalten_, 20; 1903. Download references AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Physikalisches Staatsinstitut, Hamburg B. WALTER

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