Show aen r TRIES TO SIGNAL MARS BEARS WITH KITES OV m w A Eddy in Philadelphia orth American On Saturday night I sent aloft my Kite sustained su steel Meet wire to a height of ot about abon 1 1000 feet Tie The wire leading Iding up to the tile one on n kU kI e was W fastened to an Iron rIng near the kite reel red at the earth e rth An Ann other Iron ring w was fastened to the ol of the reel reet wire and enI en tine the two Iron were conned connected by Inched rings ring n eight Inches of or Hk silk sill cord m making hur nearly manly JJ perfect Insulation even n i as ed ends ond o t the followed II beating by y of a a cessation sparks um t of were r as forty s regula t count see sec At 7 p in n a new Rew apparatus was em coated consisting many r of points a long ot of strip tinfoil of plan This ThI reached re in 10 trip and quadruple three s and a sparks four r taking at I a g time tr place The 4 In e groups silk cord cort o of o J I at sparks rJ gap d eight inches in length n h was wa bridged by copper wire r the spa p c gap being reduced to 10 rod ot an ax inch weert iron rods This efa had re suited milted in from to even sparks parks l before I an Intermission of or several severa minutes was reached I believe that intelligent signals Iron from S I S another planet would come corns only from an tn automatic machine mabl running year after Year Jear ear and century after century before a i coincidence fo between a signal and the re ert of it could be established h I think that such lIuch an apparatus on Mars would be obliged like ed to run automatically ru day dy and ant I night Professor ro John Mimes earth arth h quake wave wae recorder on the Isle of or o Wight h England As far as I know ow snow to no o static sparks at a t regular Intervals can he h drawn from the tae earth alone atone but only by b I connection strata tI The of conductivity the i earth t with of r tine the the wire upper r rn rh rb dun dur air ai r owing lag ing n this thin h to experiment the cold which b was u vastly bt greater greate lia in crease crea the conductivity of the th wire as a compared with the results from i a clear clea Ir sky in n summer which c I hav have e found nd many inan e times tinen u for the last eight years I have received r led word from front Stratford Ky iCy that from 1867 1861 to tn IS at Circles Hie 0 O galvanometer experiments were con ton ducted duct 1 by means of oC a lightning rod sur cur surmounted surmounted mounted by a copper co r ball bait on ChI n a hurch spire by which goldleaf galvanometer r deflection were recorded at regular In trysts Deflections wen were Ie obtained at in tervala of twentythree minutes ml and ant I three deSertions deflections in one hour then an in i of sixty four minutes es and mor more C deflections d A six x Inch h Marconi globe has sent a I t wireless s message mea ninetyfour miles Tak lilt lag a basis of or tOO mil milts miles a as the tine distance dl nce C covered b by wireless telegraphy in tint this S Sway way then a lightning flash ash At It tine the th arth rrth I ought to t an electric wave to a i n distance T c 1 0 time tim the tine earths s di diameter diameter ameter matter or tin iU miles mile or er Ml lit times i the nearest n t distance to Mars lars or three thres Hm limos the th distant distance to tine the outer plane plan t I Neptune N |