On 13 April 1745, lightning struck the Saint Mark's Campanile in Venice, damaging the structure. The building was fitted with a lightning conductor in 1776 to prevent this kind of incident from happening again. Illustration from "Les Merveilles de la science ou description populaire des inventions modernes" written by Louis Figuier and published in 1867 by Furne, Jouvet et Cie.

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