SPEED OF LIGHTNING
American scientists have succeeded in measuring the speed of lightning. They found that it travels at 10,000 miles a second. The observations were taken at the world’s highest building—the 'Empire State Building in the heart of New York, which is struck more often than any other known place on earth. A film camera on top of another skyscraper half a mile away was used in the tests. It recorded every flash over a period of three years.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1938, Page 7
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80SPEED OF LIGHTNING Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1938, Page 7
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