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I have been engaged for some time past in experimenting on the thermal effects of electric currents, but the final results of those experiments are not sufficiently ripe at present to justify my bringing them before the Royal Society. I have, however, obtained one result which I believe to be sufficiently novel to justify a short preliminary note; The most striking facts elicited by these experiments are: 1. The extreme rapidity with which thin wires acquire and lose their increased temperature.
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