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IN the course of my investigation of electrical oscillations I have been enabled, by a simple transformation of my apparatus, to study electrical discharges of greater intensity and length than have hitherto been obtained in atmospheric air. These discharges are produced by means of a storage battery of ten thousand cells, giving approximately twenty thousand volts. This battery charges Leyden jars or Franklin plates, in multiple, and a simple mechanical contrivance enables me to discharge them in series. Thus I have followed the path indicated by Planté; but my experiments have covered a far "greater range.
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High Electromotive Force2. Nature 59, 343–345 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059343a0
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