The learned Italian Jesuit, Strada, iu ono of his "Prolusiones Academicae," in 1017, has a sort of prevision of the instantaneous transmission of thoughts and words between two individuals, over an indefinite space, by supposing the existenco of "a species of loadstone which possesses such virtue that if two needles be touched with it, and then balanced on separate pivots, and the ono turned in a particular direction, the other will sympathetically move parallel to it."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 205, 30 August 1934, Page 5
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