This mad scientist stands on top of a truck rigged with two huge tesla coils shooting deafening bolts of man-made lightning through his metal suit.

He had simply applied a known device, that of man-made lightning, a thing which science had often demonstrated for public display.

He could understand how the makers of man-made lightning obtained the power for their terrific volts.

The natural targets for those streaks of man-made lightning were The Shadow's steel guns.

Down spurted a wave of man-made lightning that ripped the big advertising signs to shreds, for the great truck was located just behind them.

A brief second later the building's top emits a bolt of lightning that broke even Tesla's record for man-made lightning, recorded at nearly a kilometer in length.

Long flashes of light shot vividly, darting like streaks of man-made lightning.

He knew that he had planned the experiment so that the first bolts of man-made lightning ever created would shoot from the top of the 200-foot-tall mast.

Hidden arcs shot ripping streaks of man-made lightning about the spot where the cloaked figure was turning.

He undertook a systematic study of it, resulting in experiments of man-made lightning in the laboratory; this work was published.