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cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
When you want to test the speed of propagation of electricity, you use what you have on hand?
"In 1746 Jean-Antoine Nollet wired 200 monks in a mile-long circle and zapped them with a battery of Leyden jars. One can only imagine the reaction of the circuit of clerics, but their simultaneous jerking and no doubt not-terribly pious exclamations demonstrated that electricity moved very quickly indeed."
http://www.ganssle.com/tem/tem413.html
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