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...about 700 years, magnetism has been known as the force that stands still. Last week a physicist claimed to have proved that magnetism moves. Professor Felix Ehrenhaft, formerly of Vienna, told the American Physical Society meeting in Manhattan that magnetism flows as electricity flows. If he is right, his discovery is at least as revealing as Benjamin Franklin's kite, and technology has a new horse to harness...
...Ehrenhaft of Vienna again presented his hypothesis of electrical bodies smaller than electrons, of particles approximately one millionth of a yard in diameter. Practically none believed...