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Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1947 Photograph shows two riggers installing a lightning rod atop a pole extending 60 feet above the topmost pinnacle of the Empire State Building. ACME Photograph. No. 835950. Date on verso: May 24 1947. Caption on verso: "Riggers install a lightning rod atop a pole extending 60 feet above the topmost pinnacle of the Empire State Building, largest structure in the world. Installation was being made in preparation for an investigation into lightning by scientists of the General Electric Company. Sensitive recording devices will be used in an attempt to discover data previously unattainable. At first, only instrument recordings will be studied. Later on lightning cameras will be set up to photograph the phenomena". Title from news agency caption on item. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Parler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Nearest Thing to Heaven: 1of1: The Empire State Building and American Dreams (Icons of America) Paperback – Illustrated, December 4, 2007 by Mark Kingwell (https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Kingwell/e/B001H6MKGI/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)   (Author) http://www.amazon.com/Nearest-Thing-Heaven-Building-American/dp/0300126123/ref=sr11?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1457911597&sr=8-1&keywords=nearest+thing+to+heaven+kingwell "'This book is surely one of the literary highlights of the year... Go out now, buy and read this book for yourselves. It is a rare treat." Peter J. M. Wayne, Spectator 'The tone of this scholarly tribute to "the building" is fun-loving cultural studies, with references to Don DeLillo, Barthes, Virilio et al as the author takes a leisurely conceptual stroll around it.' Steve Poole, The Guardian 'A thoughtful book... In tracing the Empire State Building's multiple meanings and associations, Kingwell ranges widely.' Andrew Mead, Architects Journal"