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Show Wl.l h of a l.lntnl ImK. The width of a fish of l'ghtnlng has been measured by George Rutuktr of the Hamburg observatory. A photograph photo-graph was secured last August as lightning struck a tower a third of a mile away, and from the distance o the tower, and the focal distance of the camera objective It was possib.. to calculate the breadth of the discharge shown In the picture. It ha been de-termlhM de-termlhM that the flash was one-flfth of an Inch wide. Ramification, shown in the photograph on each side of the main discharge are attributed to the .trong gale that was blowing I the I phenomenon phe-nomenon appearing Ilk. a silk ribbon with shreds floating In the wind. |