Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1911 — The Tiny Electron. [ARTICLE]

The Tiny Electron.

A striking description of that inconceivably minute particle the electron, which within recent yean has dethroned the atom as the ultimate component of matter, was given by President EL F. Nichols. “Its behavior," he said, "If that of an atom of negative electricity pure and simple, its form is spherical and not spheroidal. Its sise is probably less than one ten-mllllon-milllonth of an inch. When revolving briskly enough in an orbit within the atom it gives us colored light of highest purity. When violently jostling irregularly about it gives us white light Without the electron all light would be impossible.—Exchange.