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A FORM of this effect lately presented itself, which seemed in some ways new. A thin jet, 5 feet high and arched so as to be 3 feet at the base, was falling in a feathery spray. At 13 feet distance a small Wimshurst machine was set going: not instantly, but after two minutes, the spray gathered itself up almost into one clear line: although the jet was turned up and down and the machine was discharged the falling water would not resolve itself again into spray for fifteen or twenty minutes. It is difficult to imagine the medium for this action: it is too indefinite, perhaps, to suppose that an indicator is found for the trembling of a disturbed ether while it is dying down.
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CROFT, W. Sensitive Water Jets. Nature 45, 606 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/045606d0
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