Template:Selected anniversaries/November 19

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  • 1700: Priest and physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet born. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high.

    1700: Priest and physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet born. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high.

  • 1936: Television talk show host Dick Cavett born.

    1936: Television talk show host Dick Cavett born.

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