Victoria Colliery, Burntcliffe, destruction of the magazine by lightning 146 ———— Major Majendie’s report thereon 147 Volta and the ‘return stroke’ 70 Voltaire, his _bon mot_ concerning lightning 158 W Wall (Dr.), on electricity and lightning 3 Watson (Dr. William), experiments in electricity 7 ———— the first to erect a lightning-conductor in England 38 ———— on St. Bride’s Church being struck by lightning 39 ———— and the protection of the Royal Navy from lightning 86 Weathercocks and lightning-conductors 21 Weber (Dr.) and the law of units 59 West-End Church, Southampton, struck by lightning 181 Westminster Bridge, electrical experiments made from 7 ———— Palace, the system of lightning-conductors at 98, 118 Wilson, the advocate of ‘balls _versus_ points’ 40 Winckler (Dr.), his experiments in electricity 5, 6 Windsor Castle inadequately provided with lightning-conductors 175 Winthrop (Professor), his defence of lightning-conductors 26, 27 ———— Franklin’s letter to, defending lightning-conductors 36 Wurtemberg, statistics of deaths caused by lightning in 175 Y Yelin (J. C. von) his advocacy of brass wire for lightning-conductors 105 _Spottiswoode & Co., Printers, New-Street Square, London._ Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained. The spelling of non-English words was not checked or corrected. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. In the original text, Figures and Footnotes were numbered from “1” in each chapter. Here, they are numbered in a single sequence for the entire eBook, and references to them have been adjusted accordingly. Inconsistent font styles (normal, italics, small-caps) of the abbreviation “Fig.” in illustration captions have regularized to the predominant form, “normal” (no italics, no small-caps). Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. Page 184: No closing single quotation mark for text beginning “‘completely indicated”. End of Project Gutenberg's Lightning Conductors, by Richard Anderson