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IN NATURE, vol. xxiv. p. 360, were described in general terms the very interesting experimental researches of Prof. Bjerknes, of Christiania, which excited so much attention at the late Electrical Exhibition at Paris. Our readers will remember that the main point in those re-searches was the imitation of the phenomena of magnetic and electrical attraction and repulsion by analogous attractions and repulsions produced between pulsating or vibrating bodies immersed in liquid. The extreme importance of suck experiments in hydrodynamical theory was so well pointed out by Prof. George Forbes in the former article, that nothing need be said here in that respect. The present article is confined to a concise description of the apparatus of M. Bjerknes, and of the results obtained by its means.
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Bjerknes' Hydrodynamic Experiments . Nature 25, 271–274 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025271a0
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