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IF we knew as much about electricity as we know about sound or light, we should be still a long way from having learnt all that we could wish, but we should know far more than we do now.
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A Lecture delivered before the British Association at York on September 5, 1881, by William Spottiswoode, D.C.L., LL.D., President of the Royal Society.
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The Electrical Discharge its Forms and its Functions 1 . Nature 24, 546–551 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024546a0
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