Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1895 — Brain Not So Quick as a Leyden Jar. [ARTICLE]

Brain Not So Quick as a Leyden Jar.

According to a writer in the Popular Science Monthly, the nerves ol warm blooded animals telegraph information to their brains at the rate of about 150 feet per second. When anyone puts his hand on hot iron he does not feel it until the nerves have sent the message to the brain, and in the interval his hand has been burned. It is thought that this would not be the case if the nerve message were transmitted with the intensity and velocity of electricity transmitted over a copper wire to a brain acting with the promptness of a Leyden jar.