The porch in font of the cella of a Greek or Roman temple formed by the projection of the side walls and a range of columns between the projections.
Most commonly, the lightning current ceases in about a millisecond for a given stroke, but sometimes there is a continuing current on the order of 100 amps following one or more of the strokes. This is called hot lightning and it is the cause of lightning fires according to Uman.
Benjamin Franklin invented the lightening rod-he demonstrated lightning was electricity. 1786 A.C. Italian physician, Luigi Galvani demonstrated what we now understand to be the electrical basis of nerve impulses when he made frog muscles twitch by jolting them with a spark from an electrostatic machine.