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LORD KELVIN, in his letter published in NATURE, February 6, says that “it is an abuse of words to speak of the ‘elastic solid theory of electricity and magnetism’ when no one has hitherto shown how to find in an elastic solid anything analogous to the attraction between rubbed sealing-wax and a little fragment of paper … or between two wires conveying electric currents.”
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LEAHY, A. Velocity of Propagation of Electrostatic Force. Nature 53, 364 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053364b0
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