Discussion on “the corona produced by continuous currents,” (Farwell) New York, November 13, 1914, (see proceedings for November, 1914)

L. W. Chubb: The author makes certain apologies about the paper, saying it is more of technical interest than commercial value, compared with the alternating current corona. That may be so, but I believe there is a good deal of commercial value in the study of the direct potential in connection with electrical precipitation, and our fundamental study of the electron theory and effects of ionization. I think also the paper will stimulate a good deal of further work along this line just as the first few papers on corona stimulated a great number of papers in the alternating-current work. There is too much in the paper to grasp or remember from reading it over once, but I think it is a very good paper for our records. I cannot read it without thinking of the various explanations which there may be for all the different phenomena he finds, some new, some not entirely new, but they have a very important connection with the work that is going on.