300 Meters of Iron

Posted in Science & Math by Greg Ross on July 8th, 2006

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“The Eiffel Tower as a Colossal Lightning Conductor,” photograph taken June 3, 1902, by M.G. Loppé. Published in the Bulletin de la Société Astronomique de France, May 1905.