Harger Lightning & Grounding proudly introduces its new Ground Rod Driver. The Ground Rod Driver provides a safe, simple, effective and affordable way to install ground rods. The Ground Rod Driver ...

The Chicago National Weather Service has designated March 5-11 as Severe Weather Awareness Week in Illinois and Indiana and, among the several phenomena associated with severe thunderstorms, lightning ...

After two nights of intense thunder and lightning, some Central Floridians are rushing to prevent their homes from getting struck. A foot-long lightning rod is 99 percent effective at protecting your ...

In an age of computers and lasers, Morris Rosenthal`s lightning rod business, using the basic principles discovered by Benjamin Franklin, is crackling. Rosenthal is president of the 117-year-old St.

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If you love American history, you’re already a fan of Benjamin Franklin. He is said to have invented the rocking chair, bifocals, a musical instrument called the glass armonica, the odometer and, of ...

LAKEWOOD RANCH — A terrible storm was thrashing the East Manatee neighborhood of Rosedale when Frances Mallarino saw a bolt of lightning and heard a crash. “I checked my house, sat back down to read, ...

Brazilian researchers captured on camera the brief moment when lightning rods on buildings released an upward discharge to attract incoming lightning. By Nicholas Bakalar Benjamin Franklin invented ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A Triad home is a total loss after a lightning strike hit it. By the time firefighters got to the home on Pheasant Lane in Winston-Salem, flames were coming out of the rooftop. This ...