Lightning Strikes the Eiffel Tower (1902)

Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower on 3 June 1902, at 9:20 pm.. This is one of the earliest photographs of lightning in an urban setting. From the book Thunder and Lightning by Camille Flammarion, translated by Walter Mostyn (1906).

 

Credit: NOAA/DoC; from NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) Collection [source].

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