Show 1 i THE HE LIFE OF THE TIlE WORLD f fI Mechanics tells of a Boston engineer who has invented a machine that is claimed to the suns sun's rays into electrical energy direct di- di 1 without the use of any intermediate appa appa- Fatus Then an elaborate de description of the machine mais ma ma- chine 1 is given and it winds w up lp b by sa saying ing the apparatus ap 1 p ratus contains absolutely no no moving pa parts ts Inhere there is no chemical action is weather proof and amI is isto claimed to need no attention from one year ear to an- an J with the exception of keeping the the glass f h covers it clean The action is automatic circuit breaker opening an and l closing the circuit i ll the voltage falls faIls below belo the battery or rises 1 4 r f e it jt That raises a question The rhe g gentleman n sa says s 's he hethe Q verts the suns sun's rays raJ's 1 into 1 0 electrical energy Has fYer ver stopped to ask whether the suns sun's rays S are themselves electrical energy Warner Yarner says f r suns sun's r rays js do no not heat the earth and he seems to prove it conclusively because the space l between between here and the sun somewhere between 1 l and miles is a good many H. I Degrees colder than ice His theory is that no h at that an any sun could throw off could penetrate penetrateS te i S that terrible cold And that looks reasonable B l he says the sun iun is gathering all tb the time e electricity elec- elec eci ec- ec i from space and all the time it is IS throwing I t nit 1 t off to its planets Cold is a natural conductor of f electricity and so it has no trouble finding its iti vay v through space until it strikes our atmos atmos- I jre e c th then n the friction of the atmosphere produces I l h we charge on a hot day to the sun ow ow o ir if f this hc heat t is simply simpy electrical heat then light c not this Boston engineer to say that he has i a wa way to utilize the electricity in the sun- sun earns eams instead of saying that he has invented a ac c evi for the storing of the suns sun's ener energy If the 1 energy nerg is simply the casting off of elec- elec i tf ij tl then n his his his' term ought to be that he is rr lp p that electricity which comes from the e 7 r n a d which after striking our atmosphere be be- i w warm rm and amI which we call can the sunbeams t The description ot this machine machi e goes to wrate that he lie says there is IS no chemical ac- ac WJ j-it j it has las no no moving parts and needs peeds no attention hat i is he lie takes the light of the sunbeam and iverts back in tangible form the electricity of bici ii ich h it is composed f I r We Ve notice that scientists and clergymen alike nore re theory they still insist that the theu theun un u throws off the heat to the world and that to if p up its fires it burns up every year ear as much natt matter r as our own earth contains And Arid that looks f 1 to tois is like an impeachment of Gods God's wisdom rt is no life in matter thc there e is no life in matter on fire how much easier eMler it is IS to conceive t l t the ie great moving spring of life electricity t a I. I Pr process perfectly natural is drawn into the thet t i from space and thrown off oft by b- the sun to travel through the and inconceivably y- y t old sn space ce between the sun and this e earth rth tc tr strUm strike here jan a ari atmosphere which produces the f friction ric- ric fric- fric tion earth and nd nake the harvests pos- pos Bible Ie I f t Thc Tho invention is is all Il right if it t catches the h dee elec- I that bak 1 the sunbeam am and converts convert it tc ho that man can control But But Bitt he lie do does docs s sf f k cre crete create te t the le- le electricity electricity all all all lie Je does i I k Ito to tn draw it the beams be-am just asit came from the sun Ve Ye Yei i believe ve that will be be demonstrated one of these t. t F days d das s when men learn more snore about electricity and ld i it sit methods ds and get a little nearer nearer in knowledge ledge to fo u the source of all knowledge e. e |