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…pigtails on a Stratoliner

NOV 01, 1948
Engineers and physicists labored and brought forth…
J. C. Jensen

From the earliest records of sailing the seas in ships come tales of a strange phenomenon known as St. Elmo’s fire, a visible discharge from pointed parts of the ship into the atmosphere.

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J. C. Jensen, Nebraska Wesleyan University.

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Volume 1, Number 7

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