Show abat ie rue elecie ettle a tho the idea that electricity flows through a wire so somewhat aa water flows through a pipe is likely to pass away ag as reason reasons appear for believing that the energy li not transmitted by the tho viro at all but by the bur rounding ether in some experiments peri ments by professor J J thomson the tile velocity of electric disturbances along a wire surrounded by air was vas n nearly early double the velocity along the same wire surrounded by sulphur and the velocity of the discharge through a vacuum lube tube fifty feet long was comparable with that of light the congou sion on ia that the conductor merely guides the it impelled through the ethea ether I 1 ar kalsaw Arkan sow traveler I 1 I 1 labs t all L J kw |