ELECTRICAL DISCOVERY.
EFFECT OF GREAT COLD.
RESISTANCE DIMINISHED. V
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received July 2, 12.23 a.m.) Pap.is, July i. 'A Dutch scientist, Professor Kamerliuge Onnes, of Leydcn, while experimenting with low temperatures, discovered that a coil of fine lead wire normally offering a resistance of 736 ohms to an electric, current, did not offer any resistance tfhen the wire was plunged into liquified helium, and that a current introduced into lead wire by induction persisted for many hours without diminution.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15650, 2 July 1914, Page 7
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