“ATMOSPHERICS”
CAT’S WIRELESS MESSAGE. While listening from a wireless crystal set, a Manchester man started to stroke a cat that lay at his feet. Simultaneously with every stroke he noticed atmospherics in the earphones. Thinking that the noises might be caused by movements of his body and the ilex cord, he tried stroking the carpet instead of the cat. He found that only by stroking in one place could he obtain the atmospherics, and there tney appeared even when the cat was stroked by somebody else. While using a coherer as a detector, Sir Oliver Lodge had a similar experience. He attributed the noise to little sparks caused by stroking a dry cat, i and sufficiently powerful to affect the wireless set.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19846, 21 May 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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122“ATMOSPHERICS” Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19846, 21 May 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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