Fifty-three years ago there was a physics instructor at U. S. Naval Academy who developed a great curiosity. He wanted desperately to know just how fast light travels. He was then a young man of 23. Now he is 76 and has become a veritable epicure in curiosity. He demands the very tittles of exactness.
In his 53 years of experiment Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, now the world famed physicist of Chicago University, has little by little whittled away the inaccuracies surrounding the calculated speed of light. In 1926, he set up two reflecting...
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