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Show WOULD DMCj L CABLE : .' FAR' AB THE EARp Chicago Inventor Expects to Get Power by Projecting . Wire 250 Hlles Into Atmosphere. CHICAGO. Jan. i-Chlcago capitalists are backing a Chicago man', scheme Which, on its surface, appear. Impossible of attainment ' The Bcheme Involves the harnessing of electricity In the unexplored regions far above the earth".' surface. sur-face. This electricity, the originator asserts, will furnish power and light In In-exhaustible In-exhaustible quantities Chicago la to be the scene of the first experiments, and eight acre, of land at Devon avenue and1 Clark street have been purchased for the erection of a plant or experimental station. The scheroe. worked out by Albert G. Whitney to hi. own satisfaction and that of the capitalist, back of him. Is to project a wire cable 210 mile, above the SSS.!?.!. ia3!v.hat atmo8PRer tnd to a height of about seventeen rf L?.!!8" Abov tn "tnospher Mr. Whitney .ay. the force of gravitation Is away from instead of toward the earth. The projection of '"Zflt "bl " Mr' Whlthey. theorle. are correct, would cause the w!S cable, to gravitate from the earth bo that he could unwind any quantity of cable and the wire would maintain its rigidity. . - 7 ...rrwZ?!!?,?., "perll,?U hav tkst. the ethereal region, are Yl.v1rlC,tLn, that tw".for be transmitted to the earth'. S.i(.rf t ,0D CabIe- Thl" cab,e 18 to be three-fourth, of an inch in diameter at the base, narrowing to one-eighth of an Inch at It. top. The prob-em prob-em of projectln the cable Is Mr. Whitney', secret. Mr. Whitney1, company Is Incorporated for,56.000,0O0 under South Dakota law.. . |