The news of the death of Georg Wilhelm Richmann, a professor in St. Petersburg, who was killed by lightning in 1753 during his attempt at measuring the intensity of the electric field in the atmosphere, caused Diviš to become interested in atmospheric electricity, and to the decision to construct a "weather-machine" at Přímětice.
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Benjamin Franklin had invented the lightning rod in 1752 in the United States, but it did not work well, because it was not grounded, while Diviš's apparatus in 1754 was.
the minister of Primetice, Czech inventor Prokop Diviš, in 1754, built the first worldwide grounded lead in his garden.
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