From the January 22, 1938, issue

LIGHTNING STROKES CAUGHT BY A ROTATING CAMERA

Lightning does strike twice and more than twice in the same place, it is demonstrated by the photograph appearing on the front cover of this week’s Science News Letter. Eleven separate strokes make up what appears to the eye as a single lightning flash.

The strokes, which come so fast that the human eye cannot distinguish them, were photographed by General Electric Co.