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IN a short note published in NATURE of February 6, I suggested an arrangement of four insulated and electrified spherical conductors with their centres in one line, giving rise to ethereal waves in the surrounding atmosphere, of which the disturbance in the line of centres is essentially longitudinal. But at any finite distance from this line there must also be laminar or distortional waves of the kind expressed in Maxwell's equations. The object of my present communication is to show an arrangement by which a large space of air is traversed by pressurai disturbance, or by waves essentially longitudinal, or by condensa-tional-rarefactional vibrations; with but a very small proportion, practically evanescent, of laminar waves.
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On the Generation of Longtitudinal Waves in Ether1. Nature 53, 450–451 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053450a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/053450a0