New Light on Electricity.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 8 May 1914, Page 2

New Light on Electricity.

An observer has just called attention to a curious property o£ an electric current in that, when passing round a sharp corner, it apparently projects a discharge along its original line of motionAnother authority advances the nction that it is evidence of the existence of a true electric momen:tum, resembling that of water flowing in a pipe. Faraday had thought of the possibility of such a. thing ; but his experiments led him to conclude against its existence. Clerk Maxwell afterwards raised the question again, and also decided it in the negative. But it .nas lately been pointed out that the phenomenon is in accord with the most re^ cent theory of the atomic nature of electricity, which had not been worked out in Maxwell's day. At any rate, it is said, there is here a newly acquired fact about electricity, whatever the ultimate explanation of it may be.