Identifier: mccluresmagazinev8mccl (find matches)
Title: McClure's magazine
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949
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Publisher: New York : S.S. McClure
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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sun strike sthe earth. As there are twentyseven ciphers after the decimal point before the figures begin, its density is of course less than anything we can imagine. From its density its rigidity has been calculated, and is also inconceivably small. Nevertheless, with this small rigidity and density it is held to be an actual substance, and is believed to be incompressible, for the reason that would not transmit waves in As it is believed to fill all space, many profound otherwise it the way it does, the interplanetary and searching experiments have been made to determine whether, as the earth moves in its orbit through space at the rate of nineteen miles per second, it passes through the ether as a ship goes through the water, pressing the ether aside, or whether the ether flows through the earth as waterflows through a sieve forced against it. Through the elusive character of the substance none of these experiments have as yet produced any very satisfactory results. TELEGRAPHING WITHOUT WIRES. 3«5
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DR. BOSE AND HIS NEW APPARATUS FOR THE STUDY OF ELECTRIC RADIATION. It has been found, however, that the ether enclosed in solid bodies is much less free in transmitting waves than the ether in the air. Thus glass, alone, transmits lightwaves at the rate of about three miles per second. The ether in the glass transmits them at a rate 40,000 times greater, or about 120,000 miles per second, while the ether in the air transmits them at the rate of 192,000 miles per second. The reason why the ether in the glass and other solids transmits more slowly than that outside is a mystery at present; but, as said before, this is one of a mass of gathered facts which have now placed science in a position from which it is possible to attack the mystery of the ether. Electric waves were discovered by an American, Joseph Henry, in Washington, D.C, in the year 1842. He did not use the phrase electric waves; but he discovered that when he threw an electric spark an inch long on a wire circuit in a room at the top of h

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