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dis·charge, os·cil·la·tor

The sudden or disruptive discharge of a static condenser, such as a Leyden jar, or of many other charged conductors, is oscillatory in character. The direction of the currents rapidly changes, so that the discharge is really an alternating current of excessively short total duration. The discharge sends electro-magnetic waves through the ether, which are exactly analogous to those of light but of too long period to affect the eye.

Synonym--Surging Discharge.

[Transcriber's note: Marconi's transmission across the English channel occurs in 1897, five years after the publication of this book.]

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