18 THE OGDEN STA EX FRIDAY EVENING 14 1927 THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE 1 1 1 Electricity Sketches by Bessey Synopsis by Bracher T I r-I r I p j 11 f. f t 1 t Electricity's mighty force for e in the expedition of f news nes and pictures and arid in in the machines that print has been Pliny wrote that the lodestone if suspended n c n i a described now described now to take tako up electricity itself the strange He observed d' d that the The great Pliny wrote string in midair always turned one of its points n rth power ower that so long held it its secret from froni mankind amber would draw to it it- itself about amber ambar amb r about the Pliny also knew krew that certain fish could give a man such Nearly I Ne years year before Christ a Greek Gre k named Thales self little pieces of feath feath- feathers year A. A D D. likening sharp electric shocks as to make him ill III But he drew diW drewno d w noticed that t at amber when rubbed another connection between the of the amber ambe the ish Ils against ma ma- material ers and other light Ii ht arti arti- it to the lodestone a certain no power tenal became heated cles cl ci g tain tam ore and the lodestone 10 To Be Continued C idEA n ial P I n of thi U. U o 1 I T Thi i. i ef f t. t it 1 til 1923 s I d II M. M on k