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Consequently the above equation would take on the 

 following form: 



km. it=hm, 

 that is: 



it=h/k=H, 



where H again is another coefficient of proportionality 

 and dependent solely upon the units of measure already 

 fixed above, and so represents an arbitrary, constant 

 numerical value. It follows from this that it is constant. 

 And if i in its turn is likewise constant for each specific 

 current, t must also be constant; i. e., to each definite 

 specificity of current, i, will correspond a likewise deter- 

 minate and constant duration of discharge. 



If then, no matter what conditions may induce the 

 different discharges of a current of the specificity i, all 

 these discharges can have invariably only the same dura- 

 tion t, and if this holds also for those which constitute the 

 oscillating discharge, then the oscillation itself, which 

 consists of a double discharge of which each one has a 

 direction contrary to that of the other, as we stated above, 

 will have necessarily a very definite and constant period 

 of its own which corresponds each time to the particular 

 specificity i of its respective current. 



It follows that among all the infinite vibrations of the 

 different rays from any calorific source whatever, there 

 will be certainly present also those which have the same 

 oscillatory period as the mnemonic element in the way of 

 reconstituting itself, and those synchronous rays will 

 then be able to give to the oscillating discharge of the 

 latter an impulse which will be added to that received 

 through the difference in potential of the pair of accumu- 

 lators, and thus to have identically the same effect as that 

 which the sinusoidal-alternating, electric, induction cur- 



