Show death by electricity scientists think that death by electricity or lightning la is painless they do not know that it is so but infer er that it Is from these aarts farts the nerves communicate the sensation of pain by their vibrations or movements which are at the rate of ninety eight feet per second electricity moves in a copper wire at the rate of two hundred and eighty eight thousand miles per second hence it is probable that a strong current of electricity kills a man ber be fore his bis nerves can make him conscious of the shock prof tyndall while lecturing at the royal institution london accidentally touched with his shoulder the conductor leading from fifteen leyden jars charged with electricity he thus describes the effect on his body 1 I am extremely sensitive to electricity yet a charge from such a powerful battery as fifteen jars seemed 8 eem ed to have no disastrous effect upon me I 1 stood perfectly sti still ll 11 wondering that I 1 did not feel it but I 1 knew something had occurred after standing for a moment or two I 1 beamed to open my eyes which probably were 1 i 1 open all the time I 1 saw a confused mau mass of apparatus about me I 1 felt it necessary to reassure the people about me so I 1 said over and over again I 1 have wanted this battery to be disa als i charged chael ed into me and now I 1 have hadi had IL if although I 1 up appeared unaffected deguy reguy the t he optic nerve in me was so affected that I 1 saw my arm am severed from my wy body I 1 soon oon bow however ever recovered proper sight and saw that 11 I 1 was wac all right the battery was not powerful enough to cause death nor did it cloud prof Tyndal dalls lg intellect while distorting kis his vision but he felt no pain though the shock allec affected ted him because the nerve agency by which the consciousness of pain is 19 excited travelled like a tortoise while the electric electro current ran like a hare |