| Show THE ART OF rainmaking RAIN MAKING WITHIN the past few years quits an accumulation of literature has been produced relating to irrigation rain making and other schemes by which the desert may get its full share of moisture many of natures nature Is forces have already been reduced to mans mana dominion steam and electA electricity city are important factors in modern civial iza tion the atmosphere has as yet proved comparatively speaking an unknown element efforts have been made to navigate the air but so far they have proved absolute failures the latest development in the atmospheric sphere is the attempt to bring rain at will from the clouds A short time ago balloons charged with oxygen and hydrogen were sent up high in the air and by means of dynamite explosions on them it was hoped that abundant rains would be produced this thin experiment did not prove successful because to have the desired effect certain atmospheric conditions should exist thus making the scheme a matter of chance frank melbourne an australian is the latest wizard in th rain producing business his efforts seem to be attended with some success the agricultural department at washington is aiding him in his bis experiments and he is fig pushing his work vigorously and 8 afes afe s A with determination he is reported to have produced rat rain n in ohio a few days ago when all the meteorological la jim dictations dica tiona of rain were absent he uses a machine invented by himself in it is manufactured a certain gas which the machine projects into the air and the result is rain the time required for the successful working of the machine melbourne says to is frova from six hours to three days and the area affected is square miles general D dyrenforth to is now in texas 2 directing experiments made under the 1 provisions of the agricultural depart li ment it is still held by many that rain can be produced by firing ex plosives plo high in the air while others t contend that this is a fallacy this r question dyrenforth means to solve by V v actual experiment some time ago a citizen of salt lake city of an inventive turn of mind was discussing the rain question with the writer he held that a simpler and cheaper method was within the reach of all on the principle by which moisture collects on the outside of g a pitcher of ice water he would erect s a large shaft of some cheap kind of metal and blow through it a cold s blast the cold surface coming in ill contact with the hot air would produce ce water which would trickle to the base of the shaft and there form a large stream he says that one citizen aj in the territory has already tried this plan on a small scale and Trod produced from a very small shaft abaft as much water as would fill an inch pipe this tha scheme may not be as practice ble as claimed but whoever produces rain or water at will from the air will 1 I certainly prove a benefactor to human ity and will immortalize himself and rank among the foremost inventors discoverers and scientists |
