Quick as Lightning.—t J i-otessor Charles Wheatstone, by curious calculations and ingenious machines, ascertained from his experiments, and competent men aeceptjd his results, that the most brilliant fork and the widest sheet lightnings endure less that the thousandth part of a second of time. But a greater wonder still—the duration of the spark of the electrical machine is not the millionth part of a second, and yet : :r. Talbot can produce photograph-- by its'transient light I
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New Zealander, Volume XIX, Issue 1973, 15 September 1863, Page 3
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