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rotated one half a revolution from right to left (contra-clockwise).
Dr. Strong then tried the experiment with the book in front
of him and failed. After removing the book he got one quarter
a revolution from right to left and after a pause the same again.
I-re then opened the window and took several breaths of fresh air
and came back to the experiment. The apparent effect on the
cylinder was quick and striking. It began readily to move and
moved three rotations from right to left, contra clockwise, tho
it usually moves in the opposite direction for him. After a
pause the cylinder took up the same motion for one rotation.
paused again and then continued for six rotations from right
to left.
We paused and talked for awhile and a new cylinder was
given me to try. It moved promptly from left to right (clockwise)
for three revolutions and then from right to left (contraclockwise)
for one half a revolution and then from left to right
for two revolutions.
Dr. Strong then tried it with three revolutions from right to
left, after a pause two more revolutions in the same direction
and then again after a short pause with nine revolutions. quite
rapid, in the same direction.
We then lit a candle and placed it near the cylinder to test
whether thermic influences would move the cylinder. It failed,
but the circumstances were not conclusive because the burning
wick might have been too high to produce the current to move
the cylinder. A lit match, however, held near the cylinder and
toward the bottom of it would not affect it in the least.
A Mr. Power then came into the room on a call and after a
talk we proceeded to experiment. Dr. Strong first tried the
experiment and the cylinder moved two revolutions from right
to left. Mr. Power then tried it and the cylinder moved three
revolutions from right to left. He then tried to reverse its
motion by will power and failed. If it had any effect it accelerated
its motion in the same direction as when not trying to affect
it by his will, and moved rapidly and steadily for twenty revolutions
and stopped then only when his hands were removed.
I then tried it and had forty revolutions from left to right.
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