| Show LIMITLESS possibilities it is said that oni of the wright brot brothers bers the biplane or aeroplane W rights the other day suspended huu him elf in the air without any apparent support for un ten minutes and remained stationary in the teeth or of a gale vowing blowing fifty miles an lour ile he a few d days ays ago said that within a brief time lime five years it if me e remember ber right airships carrying tour four thousand passengers would be crossing the atlantic at the rate of 0 two hundred miles an hour I 1 in ti alic last Teli technical world is an a article r bicle written wherein the claim is made that edward S farrow has overcome tho the attra attraction cdon of gravit gravitation atlon the scientists in the toast cast ire are investigating his bis claims and chilo not admitting them to be true they do admit that they do not seem more improbable than did the xray X ray when it was first proposed ills his claim is that tho the use of the same electrical currents that make tho the xray X ray a success can be so GO used as to overcome the attraction of gravitation ile ho has been pursuing that subject for a great many years ile ho was one of the men hurried to the scene of the custer massacre helped bury the dead and then ho he sat himself to work to try to fathom the mystery of how that officer permitted tho the strategy of the sioux to lead him into a trap and destroy him at tho the time he be had just graduated from west point ile he was interested one day on a march when going over a desert country the command got out of water and there was no sign of anything liko water anywhere about them when a umatilla Uni atilla medicine man threw himself into some kind of contortion and pointed out where and a stream of water could be found close by and it was found then his attention was turned by watching the sailing ot of birds hawks in in the north find and buzzards in the south when abe they hung high in the air motionless ti so tar far as the liti human mary eye could see all unaffected by the wave motion of the other ether or the laws of gravitation no wonder the scientists falter in the presence of a possibility so wonderful as that a fixed law of nature can be overcome nut but mr farrow so tile the account says suspended a book by a thread from the ceiling of his room and it weighed eighteen ounces then he set some electrical machinery at work ork and the book being measured a moment later it only weighed fifteen ounces by that he established that lie he had overcome one sixth of WD the po power of gravitation so far as that book was concerned our thought is that all thes these e aist had better get mr jr warders AVar ders cities of the sun still and read his theory carefully lie ile declares there is s no such thing as the attraction of gravitation that what seems to be that is simply the action of electricity ills is a religious book and he says the souls of the dead when they leave the bed body even as said andrew jackson davis in the old days floit float away on oil electrical waves to the sun which is the heaven of the soul now putting all these together it would seem to us that neither the wrights nor mr yarrow farrow take away in the least tile the attraction of gravitation but they have caught a little of that force which is the life of the world electricity and it is the lifting power of tile the clec electricity trici ty tile the same as an engine lifts an aeroplane from the earth the engine lifts the aeroplane and carries upon it a man or two men in spite of tile the attraction ot of gravitation and they sail just so long iong ns AS that power is ap appalled pilled it is the same as when a boy throws a stone ile he overcomes that attrall attraction lion of gravitation for a second when the stone returns to the earth the acro aeroplane plane my may overcome it for an hour and it the wrights rights or sir mr farrow have caught the further secret how to use that power and hold himself or his invention motionless in the air against a fifty mile gale why then wo we have the secret of a power which when fully controlled will be simply limitless it is the wonder of the earth but it Is true that a little motor on a railroad in omaha Is moved backward and forward with no apparent motive power within it it has simply caught its power from tile the same currents that bring to us a wireless message from a thousand miles away and when that power is understood and utilized then the dream of sir wright may come true because if a ship can bo be built and propelled by cheso unseen currents that will carry two men why could not another that would carry two thousand men be constructed the secret is how to catch and control arol that power which is in the ether above us and utilize it we send a message on a wire a thousand miles we know that that message is sent bent by an electric current passing over a wiro wire from a battery we ave send another message by wireless we know that that has a current to travel on and it if the secret of 0 how bow to catch and hold and subdue and guide that power can be caught why the possibilities are beyond present comprehension goodwins Good weekly |
