lightning rods ships
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- deployment
- hauled up into chains or thrown into sea
- description
- Conductors designed to protect ships from lightning by directing the electrical current safely into the water, typically made of deployable, slender links.
- design
- long slender links
- purpose
- carry off perilous fluid
Relationships
- protectsPequod
- description
- The ship's lightning rods are intended to protect the Pequod, and other ships, by conducting dangerous electrical current into the water.
- source
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- source_text
- the kindred rod which at sea some ships carry to each mast, is intended to conduct it into the water.
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- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:16:33.802Z
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