Show I STANGE STRANGE NEW USES FOR TE THE EIFFEL EFFEL TOWER I I I A new rew field feld of usefulness for the the- fa famous fa famous mou Eiffel tower Is being gradually developed developed de de- de- de loped ye-loped b by French scientists and especially especially espe espe- the meteorologists meteorologist Very Ver important results have been reached in experiments regarding the decrease of temperature at rising heights and the v varying velocities of wind currents currents Many 1 interesting e i c 1 tg observations observations St have eti also been made from the top of the th tower by analyzing electric light signals thrown on the tower from Meudon Meudon Meu- Meu don nearly seven miles awa away This enabled enabled enabled ena ena- bled the spectrum lines lne of the oxygen and vapor in the earths earth's eath's atmosphere to tobe tobe tobe be studied Wireless telegraphy has also found the tower a I useful help in its Is cx- cx Lightning has ha often ofen passed pase down dow the legs of the tho te tower but without doing any damage thanks to excellent conductors Lat Lately ly an apparatus has been put up to measure powerful electric currents and flashes of lightning up to volts Intensity Intensity In In- in have been registered The future will wi have to show whether the hopes hope that the tower may prove a a condenser of atmospheric electricity and thereby a source of electrical power will willever willever wi ever be bc realized but one cannot wonder that M M. EIfe who has ha just jut brought out outa a small pamphlet on the scientific uses of the tower should indulge In such bold I speculations When hen the tower becomes the property of the city in 1909 19 the Paris Pars Meteorological I ical Observatory will wi probably be transferred trans tras to it |