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THE oldest and best known function for an ether is the conveyance of light, and hence the name "luminiferous" was applied to it; though at the present day many more functions are known, and more will almost certainly be discovered.
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etherial density, ether stream, ether drift, whirling machine, interference bands, transparent matter, moving medium, steel disks, half beams, moving matter
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Lord Kelvin, Philosophical Magazine, Modern Views of Electricity, Philosophical Transactions, British Association, Professor Poynting
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