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WHILE the velocity of electric waves is well known, as Maxwell and Heaviside have pointed out, we know absolutely nothing of the velocity with which electricity travels in a wire. As Heaviside says (“Papers”, vol. ii., p. 3, line 4):—“It may be an inch an hour or it may be immensely great”.
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FESSENDEN, R. Velocity of Electric Currents. Nature 103, 505 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103505b0
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