Show r N y I 1 LIGHT MUS MINUS HEAT amat I 1 scientists STARTLED BY MR MOORES DISCOVERY it Is believed eLlered 3 to do be the solution of one of the greatt greatest scientific benu bems of the century description lon of at the generator v I 1 HEN chloroform X first came into use a certain philanthropic divine ana ok it SS a decoy of satan k in that it boull rob god of Us the deep earnest eries cries tor for help which arise in time of trouble the plans of a mode modern rn wizard ot of the laboratory to turn night into day would probably strike tb this good man speechless w with ith dismay that man should dare to defy the edict of 0 the almighty establishing night upon the earth light without heat the idea long sought by the inventor seems at last to be w within ith in reach of tho tb world when D mcfarlan moore a young man of less than thirty years of age showed his apparatus last year at the electrical exhibit many older heads were ready to laugh at his sl aims says a writer in the illustrated american but mr moore has q quietly and persistently continued his work until today his perfected apparatus is practically ready for the market ohp magical wand with which he achieves achieve his ends is a vacuum tube his theory is that light is simply pl the motion of pa particles of the ether and the more substances he removes most of the air from tie te ube in ord gordn to give the particles free play pla ther then he be strikes these particles pa nicles a series of extremely rapid blows by mearis of interrupted carrr current nt of elec c sity thousand times a mini miar iu current rent is interrupted by b the avar arriaran ari aran alii row in use when mr exhibited exhibit eI ills his light a year ear aso ago the number of pulsations was but a minute and produced by a very imperfect mechanism then a little steel spring rapid lv moving in a vacuum did the work but after a time the steel lost ns its and refused to operate finally convinced on that his principle was sound and that only a question of mechanical cons construction tructien awaited solution the patient investigator flung aside his cpr sunup up and substituted a pendulum the res result tilt met the requirements after months month of operation the little vibrator worked as perfectly as at the beginning but bu not yet was mr moore satisfied one of these little vibrators vibrato rs was needed with every light tube and he knew that this would seriously interfere with Us it practical use was there not some means whereby the interruptions could be made for many lamps and with even higher fre frequent 7 the rhe aar answer came in the form of a wheel instead of stop atop aw W it 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 D MOORE ping and starting a little pendulum a hundred times a second he put a score of them into a circle and let them move on without stopping this was the crowning achievement so bo rapidly revolved the little wheel that the pulsations increased tenfold in frequency not one light but bitt several hundred could now be attached to ltv the same wires vires indeed it is entirely ent possible to remove the meehan mechanism ism en from the lighted building and put it thousands of feet away beside the th electrical generator at the central station |