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Show LIGHT AND ELECTRICITY. Tests Show That the Latter Travels With Comparative Slowness. Philadelphia scientists are preparing to find out how fast an electric current travals. An experiment will be made, probably from the Franklin institute, bv connections over the Atlantic cable to Liverpool and return. A recent test appeared to show that an electric current cur-rent shuffled over to Europe ami back in something like a second, or at a rate of only some 400,000 miles a minute, while light travels along at a Pl'OO.noo mile-a-minute gate. American scientists scien-tists are not willing to give up the rec - J to sunlight. The most recent experiment was tried at McGill college, Montreal, to Liverpool and rerurn. The distance traversed was 8.000 miles; time, one second and one-twenty-eighth of a second. The conditions were not good, hence the necessity for another experiment. experi-ment. Some enthusiastic electricians j claim that a currunt will speed around i the world in a trifle over three seconds, ; or cover the distance to the sun . !'.- : 000,000 miles, in three and one-half minutes. |