| Show I PRODUCE E TWO MILLION VOLTS I Brilliant Display As Elec Elec- Electricity Elec- Elec Electricity Electricity Arcs Across 20 Foot Foot Space S STANFORD T FOrD UNIVERSITY Calif Sept By 18 18 By The rhe Asso- Asso Associated Asso Associated elated The Press Press The highest 01 Vol Voltage tage ever I i produced by electrIcal was attained in a demon demon- demonstration demonstration n here hrc 1 Friday when n more than volts of ot electricity formed an arc of or living flame two points 20 feet a apart art The test marked the opening of or the tho Professor Professor- Harris J Ryan VOlt voltage laboratory and laboratory and was wasa wasa wasa a demonstration Uon of- of of tho Imposing and complicated equipment which will be bo used In a a of ot Investigations to determine how to Im- Im Improve improve Im Improve prove Ion long distance power trans transmission mission conditions It was wa wit wit- witnessed witnessed wit witnessed by bIT y a notable gathering of electrical exports power arid and educators all all from all sections of the United States TO SOLVE OLYE PROBLEMS LJ IS Scientists s said th they y expect that that the tests which will bo ho made by bythe bythe bythe the six huge huze transformers transformer which created the Imposing total of volts tot not only will only wilt be of economic value lue butwill but butwill will 1111 make possible the tho ot of many problems now known kuon n to scIence as 1 electrical phenomena l The he first objective of of the tests to be bo made at nt the laboratory laboratory- will willbo willbo willbe bo be to discover tr a a method whereby an exceptionally higher vol voltage laze can be transmitted greater dt- dt dis distances than at present and nt at the same time lessen lessen It Ir not entirely eliminate all nil existing power l suffered in power transmission transmIssion- Those rhose who witnessed today's demonstration were assembled on a II balcony 20 feet above the con con- ion ion- concrete concrete crete floor floor- of or the laboratory Twenty feet In front of ot them were the tho six big which towered above the balcony level Suspended above their heads were the electrode points and plates 20 feet apa apart t I FIXING SPARKS SIA IS The test begun began with th the labora labora- laboratory laboratory laboratory tory In utter darkness As the hidden bidden generators began their whining roar faint of light Issued from the electro electrode e plate These lights and spark alter alter- alternately alternately alternately violet and aM and white In color expanded as the voltage was In- In In Increased creased J Above bove the sputter and crackle or of the ele electricity tri trl ity and the gener- gener generator's tors ator's hum fose rose the voice of the expert In or the generator or I and nd voltage i eon con on- on boards He lIe could b 11 bu heard hearde e Five hc hundred thousand volt volts volts volts By fly this time the dark dane In ln In the laboratory was being lanced with thousands ot or sputtering varl-col- varl varl col ored darting darling flames names which created a haloot halo of glowing Blowing purple c known to Science as the corona which wasting wasting- power BRILLIANT T DISPLAY Y Suddenly with a sizing display or of electric pyrotechnics a II rIbbon of oC jagged purple and flame shot from the surface ot of one plato to the surface of ot the other The I laboratory Instantly went Into complete darkness The Tho goner gener generators were silenced Modern science had h l performed tho tha th miracle of producing a a voltage of ot 2100 2100 volts and crested created this l terrific trIe des ru and creative force Into an arc between two points ap- ap approximately ap approximately proximately Inches anart art T Te e test was repeated two more moro times The Tho plates then were were lowered The rhe santo same tOt test using the th points then was w s demonstrated ted It va s even more spectacular than Its predecessors When hn the arc aro was created It was wall marked by aloud a aloud aloud loud detonation The or of orthe the CO was nas as more evl evident than In the test with the plates Pates A- A A large a acreage which is Is part ot of the Its laboratory properly property Is Li to tobo tobo tobo bo use used I In power transmIssion ex cx which Professor Protessor In charge e of or the tho station believes will solve sol many of the most stub stub- stubborn stubborn stubborn born problems now confronting electrical experts among them thorn th prevention of power leakages how to use uso higher voltage economical economical- economically ly iy and the tho development of facil fO facil- facil facilities facilities lie for the tho study of ot the nature pr pf lightning It woo WIlD emphasized that today's test did not In n the toe prod production of artl artificial lightning Sn nn |
