Show MAKE QUICK TRIP TO VENUS william harvard prodigy says hla airship will do it in twenty minutes minute boston willlam william the 11 year old prodigy at harvard has haa not been b confining his attentions attention solely to the problems of the fourth dimension and other equally simple matters ile he has been delving into the mys mysteries of aerial navigation from one of the instructors of the physics department it to Is learned that young believes be has bag solved the problem of navigating the air and that by the evolution of his bis theory it will be possible to travel from the earth to the planet venus in 20 minutes Ms ills plan has to do with the th alpha rays rayo that are given off oc from rad radium lulu these rays are small particles of matter which leave the radium with great force and at the same time do not leasen the q quantity of their force working upon this basis believes that by attaching a block of radium to the stern of at his bis airship the propelling power will be derived from the force with which the alpha rays raya leave the radium in the same manner that a skyrocket ts ti propelled through space |