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August 31, 1930: Shaking Science's Foundations

New York Times, August 31, 1930, Sunday
Section: Educational, Page E2, 1866 words

SHAKING SCIENCE's FOUNDATIONS
To the Editor of The New York Times:
Several of my contemporaries in the electrical field seem to be particularly incensed because of a statement made by Walter Russell in The Times that "all modern theories of atomic structure have no more relation to nature than green cheese."

When I in 1900 flashed an electric current around the globe.

When in 1900 I obtained powerful discharges of 1,000 feet and flashed a current around the globe, I was reminded of the first tiny spark I observed in my Grand Street laboratory and was thrilled by sensations akin to those I felt when I discovered the rotating magnetic field.
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