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PROF. FITZGERALD (B. A. Address, Section A), in drawing attention to Hertz's experiments, has done the greatest possible service to electrical science. Hertz not only proves the existence of the ether, but the fact that an electric field is due to the oscillatory motions of the ether. Everyone who has the means will probably be repeating these experiments. The Electrician is publishing a capital résumé of Hertz's work by Mr. De Tunzelmanri. Prof. Fitzgerald himself had predicted this result at Southport in 1882, and Prof. Oliver Lodge has actually measured these wave-lengths—the shortest ether wave measured being 3 yards—by extremely simple and beautiful experiments.
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Electrical Notes . Nature 38, 577–578 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038577c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/038577c0