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ANY things that we take for granted sometimes turn out to be very much different
than we first thought them to be. Take
for instance the earth's interior. Our
physics instructors and scientists taught us
for years that the earth was once a huge
molten sphere, just beginning to cool down. The interior and center is supposed to be entirely fluid
huge molten mass where all the known elements "including rocks" are in a liquid state, at a tremendously
high temperature running up into thousands of degrees
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of the earth is just about as thick in proportion to
the rest of the earth as the peel is to an orange.
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eruptions belching forth molten rock, lava and brimstone. And to further disarm our suspicions we are
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over, even in high latitudes. These are both facts, well
authenticated and are not doubted by any sane person.
But recently scientists began wondering if these facts
really proved that the earth's interior was in a molten
state. And the more they wondered the more they
learned. For one thing they said: If the earth's interior is really in a molten state, liquid in other words,
why does not this molten mass rise and fall with the
tides which undoubtedly it would do were it liquid or
even plastic. Accurate measurements, however, show
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that there is no such tide in the interior of the earth.

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and fall, for one thing, and we would have extensive
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the earth that we cannot perceive. This is hardly even
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million times greater than any
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order. Do not forget that if the orange peel analogy
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miles deep! Contrast that with the average depth of
the ocean of less than one mile and then figure out
the gigantic tides. a liquid interior would produce!
But our modern scientist does not stop there. He
goes and counts the very few active volcanoes and
finds that as ventholes for a molten globe 7,000 miles
in diameter, they appear preposterous. These few
holes could no more serve as vents for this big globe
than you could vent an armory with a soda straw.
On top of this our astronomers come along and
prove mathematically, without a shade of doubt, that
the earth is at least as rigid as steel.
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prove it, too, that the earth's interior is not molten.
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No. 12
1920
Front Cover
WATCHING PLANTS GROW
From a painting by Harold Brown
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ONE MAN SUBWAY TRAIN
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GROW
WATCHING PLANTS
By a remarkably sensitive instrument devised by Sir Jagadis Bose,
of India
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HELLO MARS!
By H. Winfield Secor, Assoc. Member Amer. Inst. Electrical Engineers.
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ELECTRICITY FOILS GERMAN SEALS
By Fred C. Kelly
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THE PHYSIOPHONE
By H. Gernsback
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ELECTRO- MEDICAL FRAUDS
By Joseph H. Kraus
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THE EDUCATED HARPOON
By Charles S. Wolfe
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ELECTRIC BACHELOR MAID
By Edna Purdy
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TELEGRAPH, CABLE AND RADIO DISPATCHES
By Pierre H. Boucheron, Ensign U. S. N. R. F.
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WEIGHING THE EARTH
By Louis E. Derr, Prof. of Physics, Mass. Inst. of Technology
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ELECTRIFYING CANAL BOATS AND BARGES
By Robert G. Skerrett
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A Startling MemoryFeaE
That '}&z (Pan Do

I learned the secret in one
evening. It has helped me every day
How
ON THE way home that night

I asked Macdonald how it
was done. He said there was
really nothing to it simply a
memory feat, the key to which
anyone could easily learn in one
evening. Then he told me that
the reason most people have bad
memories is because they leave
memory development to chance.
Anyone could do what he had
done, and develop a good memory, he said, by following a few
simple rules. And then he told
me Ixactly how to do it. At the
time I little thought that evening
would prove to be one of the
most eventful in my life, but
such it proved to be.
What Macdonald told me I
took to heart. In one evening I
made remarkable strides toward
improving my memory and it
was but a question of days before I learned to do exactly what
he had done. At first I amused
myself wth my new-found ability
by amazing people at parties.
WHEN my old friend Faulkner 'nvited
My "memory feat," as my friends called it,
me to a dinner party at his house, I
surely made a hit. Every one was talking
little thought it would be the. direct
about it, and I was showered with invitations
means of getting me a one -hundred-and -fifty for all sorts of affairs. If anyone were to ask
per cent. increase in salary. Yet it was, and me how quickly to develop social popularity,
here is the way it all came. about.
I would tell him to learn my memory "feat"
but that is apart from what I want to tell you.
Toward the close of the evening things began
to drag a bit, as they often do at parties.
The most gratifying thing about the imFinally some one suggested the old idea of provement of my memory
was the remarkable
having everyone do a "stunt." Some sang, way it helped me in business.
Much to my
others forced weird sounds out of the piano,
surprise I discovered that my memory training
recited, told stories, and so on.
had literally put a razor edge on my brain.
Then it came to Macdonald's turn. He was
My brain had become clearer, quicker, keener.
a quiet sort of chap, with an air about him I felt that I was fast acquiring that mental
that reminded one of the old saying that "still -grasp and alertness I had so often admired in
waters run deep." He said he had a simple
men who were spoken of as "wonders" and
"stunt" which he hoped we would like. He "geniuses."
selected me to assist him. First he asked to be
The next thing I noticed was a marked imblindfolded securely to prove there was no
provement in my conversational powers. Fortrickery in it. Those present were to call out
twenty -five numbers of three figures each, such merly my talk was halting and disconnected.
I never could think of things to say until the
as 161, 249, and so on. He asked me to write
conversation was over. And then, when it was
down the numbers as they were called.
too late, I would always think of apt and
This was done. Macdonald then astounded
striking things I "might have said." But now
everyone by repeating the entire list of twentyI can think like a flash. When I am talking I
five numbers backwards and forwards. Then
never have to hesitate for the right word, the
he asked people to request numbers by posiright expression or the right thing to say. It
tions, such as the eighth number called, the
seems that all I have to do is to start to talk
fourth number, and so on. Instantly he re- and instantly I find myself
saying the
peated back the exact number in the position thing I want to say to make the greatest very
imcalled. He did this with the entire list-over
pression on people.
and over again, without making a single misIt wasn't long before my new -found ability
take.
to remember things and to say the right thing
Then Macdonald asked that a deck of cards at the right time attracted the attention
of our
be shuffled and called out to him in their order.
president. He got in the habit of calling me
This was done. Still blindfolded, he instantly
in whenever he wanted facts about the businamed the cards in their order backwards and
ness. As he expressed himself to me, "You
forwards. And then to further amaze us, he
can always tell me instantly what I want to
gave us the number of any card counting from
know, while the other fellows annoy me by
the top, or the card for any number.
dodging out of the office and saying 'I'll look
You may well imagine our amazement at it up.'
Macdonald's remarkable feat. You naturally
* * * * * * *
expect to see a thing of this sort on the stage,
IFOUND
that
my ability to remember helped
and even then you look upon it as a trick.
me wonderfully in dealing with other peoBut to see it done by an everyday business ple, particularly
in committee meetings. When
man, in plain view of everyone, blindfolded
a discussion opens up the man who can back
and under conditions which make trickery imup his statements quickly with a string of
possible, is astonishing, to say the least.
definite facts and figures usually dominates the
others. Time and time again I have won people to

my way of thinking simply because I could instantly
recall facts and figures. While I'm proud of my
triumphs in this respect, I often feel sorry for the
ill -at -ease look of the other men who cannot hold
up their end in the argument because they cannot
recall facts instantly. It seems as though I never
forget anything. Every fact I now put in my mind
is as clear and as easy to recall instantly as though
it were written before me in plain black and white.
We all hear a lot about the importance of sound
judgment. People who ought to know say that a
man cannot begin to exercise sound judgment until
he is forty to fifty years of age. But I have disproved all that. I have found that sound judgment
is nothing more than the ability to weigh and judge
facts in their relation to each other. Memory is the
basis of sound judgment. I am only thirty -two,
but many times I have been complimented on having
the judgment of a man of forty-five. I take no
personal credit for this
is all due to the way I
a
'r
trained my memory.
-it
* * * * *
THESE are only a few of the hundreds of ways I
have profited by my trained memory. No longer
do I suffer the humiliation of meeting men I know
*
and not being able to recall their names. The

moment I see a man his name flashes to my mind,
together with a string of facts about him. I always
liked to read but usually forgot most of it. Now
I find it easy to recall what I have read. Another
surprising thing is that I can now master a subject
in considerably less time than before. Price lista,
market quotations, data of all kinds, I can recall in
detail almost at will. I rarely make a mistake.
My vocabulary, too, has increased wonderfully.
Whenever I see a striking word or expression, I
memorize it and use it in my dictation or conversation. This has put a remarkable sparkle and
pulling power into my conversation and business letters. And the remarkable part of it all
is that I can now do my day's work quicker and
with much less effort, simply because my mind
works like a flash and I do not have to keep stopping
to look things up.
All this is extremely satisfying to me, of course.
But the best part of it all is that since my memory
power first attracted the attention of our president,
my salary has steadily been increased. Today it is
many times greater than it was the day Macdonald got me interested in improving my memory.
* * * * * * *
WTHAT Macdonald told me that eventful evening
was this : "Get the Roth Memory Course." I
did. That is how I learned to do all the remarkable
things I have told you about. The publishers of the
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You have always wanted a good memory. Now
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FROM time to time we hear of new

schemes devised by inventors for
harnessing the tremendous energy
shot earthward every minute of our
lives by "Old Sol." An American
scientist, Mr. Henry E. Willsie, has re-
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he Sun
menting in the wilds and barrenness of

an Arizona desert, where sandstorms,
cloudbursts, thirst and poisonous reptiles
all combined to threaten their very existence. All these experiences are interestingly toldfin an absorbing novel written by
power, particularly in the southern part of

the United States and other more tropical
parts of the world, experience has shown
that the sun's heat will cause the temperature of the water to increase to about 150
degrees. The heated water passes into a
COILS FILLED WITH SULPHUR

DIOXIDE VAPORIZED BY HEATED
WATER LET IN AND CIRCULATED
FROM STORAGE TANK TO VAPORIZER THROUGH PUMP BACKUP TO
THE GLASS FRAME
ENGINE RUN
VAPORIZED
SULPHUR
BY
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PIPE
HOT.
HOT/
WATER
WATER
HEATED WATER
PASSES DOWN INTO
STORAGE TANK
SAND LINItiG
WATER PUMPED
TOBE RE-HEATED
CONDENSER FOR
SULPHUR DIOXIDE
WATER FRAME
TURNED TO FACE
-"It,
THE SUN_
DOUBLE THICK GLASS'

OVERS RUNNING WATER
,,'
WATER PASSES TO
PUMP AND ON UP AGAIN
TO
SULPHUR 15 CONDENSED
PASSINGAROUND COLD
WATER PIPES-GOING BACK
TO VAPORIZER REGULATED
BY
CRANK
D'r"W.10 FCR'
'
FRAME
PUMP FORCIN
UP WATER FROM
VAPORIZER TO
SUN FRAME
HOT WATER
CAN BE
STORED AND TURNED
INTO ENGINE AT ANY
TIME
Copyright- 1920-by E. P.
Co.
The Latest Sun -Power Electric Plant. By Following the Pipe Lines Conveying the Sun-Heated Water to the Sulfur Dioxid Boiler, and
the Course Taken by the Sulfur Dioxid Steam Thru the Engine and Condenser, Thence Back to the Boller Once More, a Clear Idea Is Had
of Just How This "Free Energy" Power Plant Works.
ti
cently proposed a new form of Solar

Power Plant, which comprises a number of
very interesting and radical features which
would seem to promise a successful future
for it. Not only is Mr. Willsie a scientific theoretician, but also a man of practical deeds, and to this end he built, some
years ago, a solar light and power plant
on a small scale out in Arizona. The development of this plant nearly caused Mr.
Willsie and his wife their lives during their
many exciting adventures while experi-
Mrs. Honor Willsie, entitled "The Forbidden Trail."

Coming back once more to the scientific
side of Mr. Willsie's interesting invention,
which is shown in the accompanying illustration in one of its applications, we learn
that the underlying principle is the drawing
of the heat from the sun's rays into a
moving sheet of water, which passes up
and down thru a series of zigzag passage wa s, under a double thickness of glass.
the sun has considerable thermal
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water returns to the glass heating tanks
or planes exposed to the sun's rays.
Where a large plant of this type is properly laid out, the mirrors or glass -covered
tanks in which the water or liquid is heated
by the sun's rays may be arranged in a
fixt position, or also they may be designed
so as to swing from east to west with the
sun, so as to keep the rays perpendicular
to the surface at all ,hours of the day.
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This Connects
With the Various Range Finding and Spotting
Apparatus
on
the Vessel.
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The Sperry "Battle Tracer" Complete, and Also Revolution Converter
and Auxiliary Range Transmitter. The "Battle Tracer" Records the
Course Followed by their Own as Well as the Enemy Ship. E is the
Enemy Arm Tracer and R, the Range Predictor.
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ES, Captain, she was traveling at

18 knots; we were slowly closing
in on her, and when 14 miles away
we opened fire."
"The shells from the very first
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salvo struck her squarely amidship and

blew her super- structure. off
Thus
continued the gunnery officer's report of
the Naval engagement just completed in
which the very first shots found the enemy
and silenced their guns before they had a
chance to reply.
It is truly remarkable to think that not
even a "finder" shot had been fired. In
this case there was no need of firing the
guns and wasting the big shells in order to
get a "bead" on the fugitive vessel.
The vessel's range was computed to absolute accuracy and predetermined in time
for the guns to be set and fired. All this
computation with the aid of the device here
mentioned required but 19 seconds, reducing thereby, past calculations several hundred per cent.
What is this remarkable equipment, you
will ask. Essentially, it consists of a number of devices all working in conjunction
with each other. The most important of
which, perhaps, is the Battle Tracer, as it is
called.
The object of the invention, which has
proven itself to be of great practical use,
is to provide a means whereby the course of
our own ship is plotted automatically on a
table similar to the table used for plotting navigation courses. In addition, an
Is Computed
Directly
from
"Battle Tracer"
Plottings So
That Guns Can
Be Aimed Ahead
of Time, to Hit
the Enemy Ship,
by "Prediction."
arm extending from the instrument proper,

called the enemy arm, keeps track at all
times of the enemy's movements. In this
way, regardless of what our own ship's
speed may be or what the enemy's speed
may be, prediction of its probable location,
allowing sufficient time for the gunners to
change their range, can be made with remarkable accuracy and the guns can be
fired so that very few shots will miss the
target for which they were intended.
"Suppose the enemy zig- zags," you will
say. "Isn't the art of shelling more a matter of mere guess work than of accuracy ?"
No, dear reader, no
You must remember that a ship eight to nine hundred feet
long traveling at 20 knots, or perhaps, even
more,, cannot steer and squirm away with
the same ease as an automobile.
It is not a question of a few seconds, but
minutes elapse before one of these large
floating fortresses can be turned completely in their course, particularly in view of
the terrific speeds at which they move.
Hence, when a computation is made via the
tracer, and guns can be elevated within
nineteen seconds, taking the corrected findings as data to work from; it then gives the
enemy very little opportunity to change a
predicted and predetermined range or bear !
ing.
Essentially, the apparatus consists of a

cylindrical box about 7 inches in diameter
and 5% inches deep, containing four motors,
and necessary gearing. It is mounted upon
a tracer table and guided by a system of
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parallel arms which allow free movement

in any horizontal plane, at the same time,
however, preventing the Tracer from turning on its axis. This allows the outer dial
(A) of the Tracer to be kept in one position continually with reference to the table.
(Accompanying letters refer to close -up
view of Battle Tracer dials.)
This dial of which we have just spoken,
is one of the three dials which perform
varied functions. As will be noted, the
outer dial is graduated to 360 degrees and
is held on the table so that zero of the
dial is north on the chart and is always at
the upper edge of the table, altho capable
of movement in any way except the turning
movement.
Just inside of this dial and operating in
juxtaposition with it, is another dial (B)
similarly graduated but movable. This dial
is controlled from the gyro- compass by one
of the four motors inside the Battle
Tracer head.
A pointer coming from the center of the
Tracer head extends to the edge of this
dial and the outline of a ship with its how
at zero is also engraved upon it. This
pointer (D) which we have just spoken of
is connected to the enemy arm and operates
in conjunction with it, being moved by
another motor connected to the Target
Bearing Transmitters. Both the pointer
and the enemy arm are capable of complete
revolution. This movable dial (B) is
mounted upon a movable post, to the bot(Continued on page 1332)
April,
1920
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1244
etected.
et
you do not knot perhaps, or
least may not have stopt to think
about it, one of Uncle Sam's military experts can spot you in the
dark, and tell in what direction you
are moving-and at a distance of 600 feet
all due to the fact that your body radiates
HEAT
Not very much, it is true -but
still enough to affect a sensitive electric
thermopile of the type shown in the accompanying illustration.
A recent issue of the Physical Review
contains a summary of a paper read by
Mr. S. O. Hofman at the Washington
meeting of the American Physical Society
on this extremely interesting subject. In
trench warfare operations on the Western
front, maneuvers took place mainly in the
night time, as any movement during the
day quickly attracted hostile rifle and artillery fire.
An attempt was made, therefore, to detect the presence of men moving in "NoMan's- Land" at night by recording or indicating the heat radiated from their
bodies. The receiver utilized a delicate
heat -actuated instrument or heat indicator
for this purpose, comprising an electric
thermopile placed or mounted on the focus
of a 14 -inch parabolic mirror. This thermopile, which generates a very minute yet
measurable electric current whenever a heat
ray, even tho ever so slight, impinges on
it, is connected to an extremely sensitive
April,
way
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electric galvanometer or magnetic needle

instrument of the D'Arsonval type.
Remarkable and uncanny as it may seem,
it was actually found possible with this
sensitive apparatus to detect the presence
of a man at a distance of 600 feet or over
one -eighth of a mile away, which gave
plenty of time in most cases to organize
a counter-attacking party, or extra guard.
This device proved very useful for detecting hostile raiding parties creeping towards the trenches in the darkness of
night, and helped in many cases to capture
some badly wanted enemy prisoners for the
purpose of questioning by the intelligence
officers, especially when an attack was
about to be made by the Allied troops.
One of the accompanying illustrations
shows an effective and sensitive form of
thermopile. The minute electric current
generated at the juncture of two dissimilar metals such as copper and iron, or antimony and bismuth, when heated by the impinging of a heat ray upon the juncture,
will cause a deflection on a sensitive galvanometer connected to the opposite terminals of the thermopile.
Altho it is but little known, thermopiles
so sensitive that they will record the heat
radiated by distant stars have been devised
and regularly employed in astromony work
by those engaged in this work.
Dr. W. W. Coblentz, of the U. S. Bureau
of Standards, has devised an extremely
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sensitive thermopile for this work, and this

is built in an evacuated glass tube. On this
measuring instrument are registered infinitesimal fluctuations of temperature.
A ray of light may have started ten
years ago from some distant star, and
may have spent all of these ten years
hurtling earthward -bound thru space at a
speed so astounding that it could girdle
the globe in far less time than it takes to
blink an eye-and yet when it falls upon
the bolometers at the Bureau of Standards
they will tell the observer how much heat
that ray brought with it from the star to
the earth!
As Silvanus Thompson points out, one
of the most remarkable instruments of this
type is the radio-micrometer devised by
Vernon Boys. On this instrument a loop
of fine silver wire is suspended by a quartz
fiber between the poles of a magnet, and
this loop of silver wire has its circuit closed
at its lwer end by a piece of antimony and
a piece of bismuth (or alloys of these
metals) soldered to a minute disc of copper
foil. A rise of temperature in the copper
foil, even so small as one -millionth of a
heat degree, will generate an electric current in the loop and give a deflection over
one division of the scale on the instrument.
With a heat detecting instrument of this
type the radiant heat of a candle can be
detected at a distance of two miles, as
Silvanus Thompson shows.
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DETECTING ENEMY
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Imagine That You are a Soldier In the Dark At Night, and That You are Attempting to Raid the Enemy Trench. Likewise, Imagine
That You are At a Distance of Nearly One -quarter of a Mlle from Said Trench. If It Is Pitch Dark, You Will Feel Very Confident
in the Dark, That You Can Sneak Up On the -Enemy Without Exciting the Least Suspicion On His Part,
Foiled Again! -for It
Now Develops, That the Electrical Experts of the Allied Military Engineers Had Developed and Utilized-But
a Super -sensitive Electric
Thermopi;,,, Which Will Detect the Heat Radiated from the Human Body, At a Distance of from
600 to 1,000 Feet, and Many a Dead
German Soldier Would Tell You the Answer, If He Could!
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April,
THIS ONE GUARD CONTROLS

ALL DOORS ON TRAIN
INTERLOCKING CIRCUIT
CUTS OFF POWER UNTIL
ALL DOORS ARE
CLOSED
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TO COMP. AIR
SUPPLY
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TRACK
AIR CYLINDER
CLOSING
TO STORAGE
TO, SUCCEEDING
ELECTRIC COUPLING
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BATTERY
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MAN HAS COMPLETE

CONTROL OF ALL DOORS ON
TRAIN NOW BEING OPERATED IN THE N.Y. SUBWAY
(Ally dht- ia2u-by i. P. w.

Out in Actual Practise in the New York
Tried
Being
Now
Train
Subway
-Automatic
Semi
New
This
One Man Controls All
the Proper Electric Control Buttons,
at the Center of the Train Can, by Pushing Car
Subway. As the Diagram Shows, the Guard Stationed
Doors. The Motorman Can Start
and Closing the Successive
Cause Electro- Magnets to Control the Comprest Air Mechanism Open
Ali g a
the r a n
the Doors on
Sulawmy
TRAIN comes dashing into
subway
station, stops, discharges its passengers and allows others to enter.

There is nothing unnatural in this
"train" of events, as hundreds of

trains come tearing in and out of the
stations in New York's subways every day
in the year. You go to ascertain from the
guard where the nearest station to somewhere is, and travel to the end of the car,
but no guard in sight With a shrug of
your shoulders and the thought "Hmmmm-m! Perhaps he is down the next car
playing cards with his comrade," you travel
thru another coach but still no guard, and
so on down the 10 car train until you
wonder whether you are paying for a ride
or walking the distance, and then,-at last!
a guard!! -right in the middle of the train.
After finding out that it takes exactly
six blocks to the left and two to the north,
with a couple of turns in the opposite
direction thrown in, to get to the desired
place, you stick around awhile, so to speak,
in order to find out why but one guard
is in the entire train. Cutting down expenses? Rather. Here in the middle car,
his Imperial Majesty -"the Guard" -has
control of the entire train and can aim
the doors so that they will just miss you
by a hair even tho he is two -hundred feet
away from the door you enter.
In other words, by the press of a button,
all doors on all cars either close or open
at his volition. And months of experience
has taught him exactly when to release the
doors so that they will "clean up" everything in sight. The method of operation
Everyone living in the

v ery ingenious.
greater metropolis knows that the terminals
of the subway have constantly sufficient
guards to successfully jam in all the people
is
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train will hold and shut the doors after

them, so that they won't fall out again!
Hence there is no necessity of having as
many guards on the train proper as the
company is now employing.
For this reason, they have stationed a
guard in the center of this new semi-autoa
matic train, so that he can command a view

of both sides, by peeking out between the
cars. At his right and left side are a series
of push buttons for controlling electrically,
all the comprest air operated doors either
to the fore or aft parts of the train. When
he presses a button, a series of solenoids
automatically actuate the valves, allowing
for the escape of comprest air from the
cylinders operating the doors. The door
is released and flies back, allowing the
passengers of the train to be discharged.
When other passengers have entered, he
releases one button which shuts all the
doors, from his position, up to the position
of the motorman in the first car. He then
actuates the button for performing the same
function in the doors to the rear.
The instant all the doors are closed, an
automatic control allows the motorman to
throw his controller into the starting position which could n6t have been done before
this. Likewise the signal light still lit
while the door is open, is turned off automatically, and the light no longer flashes
up toward the motorman, and interfering
in this way, with his control.
Any of the doors may be instantly placed
into an inoperative position, just the same
as is being done at the present time, and
very little change in the old cars, is necessary for adopting the new system.
Storage batteries are used to actuate all
the electrical controls. Such apparatus, if
put into universal use on all trains, would
dispense with from 12 to 15 guards per
train, who could do abler service perhaps,
on the platforms of the subway stations.
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April,
ZW
YilarcA
Remarkably Sensitive
Instrument Devised
by Sir Jagadis Bose
of India
F you have ever planted flowers or
vegetables and watched them grow

from day to day, and from week to
week, you have undoubtedly been
strongly imprest with the remarkable
changes which sometimes occur in a single
night in plant growth. But -did you ever
notice the change in growth of a plant or
flower in the course of an hour, or a minute,
or a second? Quite possibly not-but if
you are interested in the close laboratory
study of plant growth, then it is possible
today to make readily visible the minute
growth of plant life, even over such short
periods of time as one one -hundredth of a
second.
While there are a number of very inter-
movements of the plant the crescograph

actually gives.
Recently a large audience seated in the
council chamber of the India Office, in London, England, watched the growth of a
plant and the effects of various stimulants
upon it, as recorded upon the large screen
on the wall. This was at a lecture given by
Prof. Bose. Either sunlight or else a beam
ELECTRIC
BEAM
1920
One of the chief features and applications

of such an instrument as this, as pointed
out by Prof. Bose, is the much shorter
time that it would now require to obtain a
definite knowledge of the growth of a certain plant under specific soil and climatic
conditions. Instead of watching a whole
season to learn if a certain plant will grow
well in a given soil, and in a given climate,
this test can now be carried out in a few
days or weeks. The accompanying graphic
curves show some of the effects of electric
shocks and poisons on plant growth.
HOW FAST DO PLANTS GROW?
Altho you probably think a plant grows

at a fairly rapid rate, even tho you cannot
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The Bose "Balanced Crescograph" for Recording, Studying and
Instrument Magnifies the Movement of a Plant While Growing,Demonstrating the Growth of Plants. This Remarkably Sensitive
Up to 100 Million Times. In London, Recently, a Whole Audience
Witnest the Action of Plants as Reflected
on a Large Lecture Screen.
esting and useful devices available in college laboratories for the study of plant
growth, as well as the action and reaction
of plants, due to the application of heat and
cold, as well as various chemicals and electric shocks administered at different time
intervals, et cetera, one of the most accurate
and remarkable instruments ever devised
for this study is the one recently used by
Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose, hailed as the
most eminent man of science that modern
India has produced, and which device is
known as the Crescograph. This instrument
is shown in the illustration on our front
cover, as well as in one of the accompanying drawings by our artist.
HOW THE "CRESCOGRAPH" MAKES PLANT
GROWTH VISIBLE.
Before going into the details of the crescograph or the auxanometer, both of which
show the growth of plants in a vivid manner, it will be interesting to note what a
really wonderful magnification of minute
of light from a small incandescent lamp
may be used in the crescograph, and this

light beam is reflected thru a series of mirrors in the manner evident from the accompanying illustration, so that by the time
it reaches the screen the relative movement
between the mirror and the focal spot of
the impinging light beam is very markedly
magni fed.
In the case of the lecture just cited, a
magnification of from 1.000,000 to 100,000;
000 times was achieved. This is tanta-
mount to magnifying the highest powers of

the microscope 100,000 times. The room
being darkened, a mysterious hook of light
past swiftly over the screen. This showed
the actual growth of the plant as projected
from the mirror of the crescograph, magnified many hundred thousand times. The
lecturer pointed out that this hook of light
illustrated the effect of electricity upon the
plant-too great power having the opposite
effect to the stimulation afforded by a reasonable amount.
notice it in a period of, say, five minutes or

even an hour, yet the plant really grows
much more slowly than you perhaps imagine.
The little snail, whose slowness is proverbial, moves 6.000 times faster than the
plant grows ! Plants grow at an average rate
of one one -hundred thousandth part of an
inch per second, or, in other words, plants
add about one inch to their stature in eleven
days. A few years ago you would have
thought it impossible to actually see the
plant grow before your eyes, but now,
thanks to Dr. Bose's remarkable researches,
you can readily do this with the crescograph.
At a recent London lecture, Sir Jagadis
Bose took a cyclamen leaf and attached it
to the crescograph. The mirror at once reflected a spot of light on the wall screen,
and this spot moved at the rate of ten feet
in twelve seconds, notwithstanding the fact
that the plant was growing only at the
April,
actual rate of 1/100, 000th part of an inch

per second.
Plants resemble
animals very much
in their daily lives,
and Dr. Bose's researches have shown
the presence of heart
beats, death spasms,
definite and positive
reactions to various
forms of stimuli, to
anesthetics, poisons,
etc. All of this work
shows, according to
esting results in
watching the growth

of plants.
There are two
forms of the crescograph, the simple
crescograph and the
balanced type. The
larger illustration
herewith shows the
details of the balanced crescograph
AUXANOMETER
STUDENT'S APPARATUS
FOR STUDYING PLANT
LEVER
BALANCE
WEIGHT
SCALE
GROWTH
COUNTER WEIGHT
TO KEEP THE
STRING
TAUT
Prof. Bose, that
plants, like human

beings, do have a
nervous system. It
is reported that this
great savant of Indian culture and science has actually
shown that plants
can and do feel the
effect of an etheric
wave message, or a
Marconigram.
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1920
STRING
TO PLANT
BEING
TESTED
as
they pass over the

earth. This proves
that the plant is
more sensitive in its
by Prof.
Bose. The principle
devised
involved in the
method of balance
consists in making
the spot of light,
which is moving in
response to growth,
become stationary
by subjecting it to a
compensating movement.
Let us suppose
the average rate of
growth to be 12
mm. per hour. This
will cause an excursion of the moving
spot of light from,
say, left to right,
thru
nervous response
than the human
PLANT UNDER STUDY
1,200 mm.
by
the end of the hour;

in that case the magnification is 1,000.
Had the growth

body, which we usuCopyright- 1920 -by E. P. Co.
been uniform this
ally are wont to
would have meant a
think of as the most
to Students' RequireAdapted
Well
Instrument
Simple
"
-a
Here's the "Auxanometer
the Plant Are Magnified
of
movement of 20
marvelous structure
Plant Gr
in
Studying
ments
the LeverlighttMovements
mm. per minute. But
ever created. People have never yet,
if not uniform the
rate might someso far as we know,
been able to "feel"
times have risen above, and at other times
a simple
devise
readily
can
reader
The
a wireless signal or wave passing thru them, form of magnifying apparatus constructed fallen below, this average. If we now subcompenbut by means of specially sensitive appasome pieces of aluminum wire and ject the spot of light to a uniform
ratus connected to a plant Prof. Bose has from
movement,
such
as by itself would
sating
supportits
with
wheel,
a
balance
made it move from right to left of the
shown that the plant really feels the effect possibly
pivots cut from an old alarm clock have
surface to the extent of 1,200 min.
of the radio wave and will interpret this ing
recording
intersome
obtain
he
can
frame, whereby
effect under the proper conditions.
by the end of the hour, we shall find that,
Prof.
of
stories
interesting
the
One of
being acted on by these two opposite moveBose's interesting work relates how he studments of growth and compensation, the
never
had
which
India
in
tree
ied a certain
spot will remain approximately on a single
reaHe
successfully.
been transplanted
base line of compensation. The fluctuatransplanted
when
died
tions, or variations, which have occurred
soned that the tree
received
it
shock
in this average rate of growth will, howbecause of the severe
he
so
ground,
the
ever, be recorded as deviations to one side
when it was dug from
tree
a
having
followed up this deduction by
or other of this mean neutral line. Thus
same
the
in
subjected to an anesthetic,
it will be seen that the slightest deviation
io
o
his
io'
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causes
surgeon
manner that the modern
from a uniform rate of growth will be
in
preparapatient to become unconscious
fig.
found displayed by the record of the movto
Strange
tion for a surgical operation.
ing spot of light.
characsame
relate, the tree manifested the
We are further enabled from our knowlanesthetic,
teristics as a person under an
edge of the speed of the recording drum
while
and it was successfully transplanted
and the balancing rate, and from an inspecunder the effect of the same. The tree
tion of the curve itself, to determine not
continued to thrive.
only the periodicities, but also the absolute
value of the rate of variation of growth
fig. 2
HOW THE CRESCOGRAPH WORKS.
at any given moment.
magnifying
of
forms
different
Several
The compensating movement referred to
have
growth
plant
studying
for
instruments
is effected by means of a simple hydraulic
other
by
and
Bose,
Prof.
by
devised
been
device. The spot of light from the optical
workers in this field of science. The standlevel falls upon a mirror attached to a secis
shown
crescograph
Bose's
of
form
ard
ond lever, or to a rotating wheel. The arm
herewith.
in
picture
and
diagrammatically
/0'
.o'
of the lever, or a thread which is past
JO
4o'
i'
of
form
simple
find
the
will
S
The student
fig. 4
around the wheel, is attached to a float on
known
instrument,
measuring
plant growth
the surface of a cylinder of water. Water
herewith,
illustrated
as the auxanometer,
is escaping from this cylinder, by means of
and
possibilities,
mechanical
quite within his
a syphon arrangement, at a rate which can
1. Fatigue Under Long -Continued StimFig.
A
ways.
different
many
in
up
it can be made
ulation in the Contracile Response of Plants.
be adjusted with the greatest nicety. The
past
slowly
to
travel
Electric
Tetanizing
smoked glass caused
(a) Stimulation by
float can be thus made to descend at any
SucceedRapidly
reby
Stimulation
will
instrument
(b)
Shocks;
an
the needle of such
speed that is desired, this descent producShocks.
Thermal
ing
place.
cord the changes taking
Fig. 2. Effect In Acceleration of Rate of
ing a rotation of the second lever or of the
underlying
the
in
fact
of
One principle, and
Growth of Seedling of "Oryza Sativa"Line
wheel.
to
Continuous
The
appears
Soil.
Thru
the
instruments,
Current
feature of all these
We have then two mirrors, of which one
Effect During Passage of Current
be the fact that a slight movement is magni- Shows
(
-),
Right
Left
to
from
(1)
the Soll
rotated in one direction, by the growthis
Thru
the
well
by
fied into a larger movement,
and (2) from Right to Left (,-). Dotted
of the plant, and the second in
movement
a
have
Current.
if
you
of
Line Shows Effect of Cessation
known law of levers -thus
direction, by the descent of
opposite
in
the
ReElectrical
in
Effect
Additive
Fig.
3.
fulcrum
a
place
lever 100 inches long, and
Stimulus of
of light reflected on the
A
spot
A
Single
(a)
the
float.
sponse
of
Plants.
any
then
at one inch from a given end,
3 Degrees Vibration Produced Little or No
thus remain stationary
will
two
mirrors
one
Rapidor
Effect, but the Same Stimulus When
movement at the end of the shorter
balance is effected by
precise
the
when
the
Produced
Times
Thirty
ly
Superposed
a
corinch length of the lever will cause
of
the escape 6f water
"Turnip."
regulation
of
proper
Leaf
Stalk
Large
Effect
(b).
of
responding and greatly magnified motion
Fig. 4. Death of Plant by Poison.
from the cylinder (see our figure herewith).
this lever at the free end of the longer limb, Fig. 5. Death, and Arrest of Pulsation, in
which will be 99 times the initial movement. Leaflet of "Desmodium," by Electric Shock.
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Mars
H1t4eflIlggenBIly ?
KEYBOARD SWITCHES
ENABLING ELECTRIC SIGN
rIGLIRES TO BE CHANGED
AS DESIRED
Fig. 7. One Writer on the Subject of Inter -Mars Communication

Has Suggested That We Place Lamps, Thousadds
Upon Thousands of Them, Over a Large Territory -as
Big as
Quick-Acting Shutters. Electrically Operated. The Lamps Are the State of Illinois -These Lamps To Be Fitted with
Also To Be Connected to Suitable Keyboards so That
by Depressing a Given Pattern of Keys,
Any Design Such as a "Map" of the United States,
"UN- I.TE -D S- T- A- T -E -B" !laminated Can
with the Letters
Be Flashed Out of the Entire Lamp Field as
Here Shown, etc. Any
Desired Letter or Picture Could Be Flashed on This Multiple
Lamp Bank, as Becomes Evident.
discussion has nothing to do with the

astronomical facts of the case, for these are
already well known,-at least so far as the
distance between the Earth and Mars is
concerned, and other heavenly bodies.
The main thing that we do not know
about Mars, is whether or not it is inhabited, but we will leave all of the vast
and profound theories on the possibility of
Mars' inhabitation, to the astronomers and
others who are capable of investigating
these facts.
So far as we are concerned in the present instance, we will assume that there is
such a being as a "Martian ". Next, the allimportant and preponderant phase of the
Mars' inhabitation theory is-how, and in
what way could we start picking up conversation or communication with our distant neighbors, intelligently.
It seems quite evident, that once we have
outlined and developed the proper method
of procedure to start transmitting and possibly interpreting the Martian signals, as
well as making sure that our method is correct, that the Martian may, with his supposedly far greater intellectual development,
(owing to the greater age of Mars as compared with the Earth,) understand what we
are trying to say to him.
It is nothing short of startling to read
some of the newspaper details that come
from all parts of the world, suggesting the
"simple schemes" whereby we can open up
communication with a people of whom we
know absolutely nothing about. Think of
it
Aside from the fact that we have to
doubt their very existence, we do not have
the slightest conception of what they look
like, nor what their language may be!
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1920
WIlHFIIE!D 5EC,R
IN
the past ten years, and particularly in

the last twelvemonth, there has been
evidenced a great deal of activity on
the part of scientists in all parts of the
world, on the subject of communicating
with Mars, or possibly Venus. The present
April,
One of the latest Martian communication

converts is Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz,
probably the world's greatest electrical engineer today, and one of our foremost
mathematicians. If anyone should be able
to conceive'of a scheme for opening up conversation by wireless telephone or telegraph,
Fig.
IA
Shows the Gigantic Size

Compared to a
Man, of the New Sperry HighPower
Searchlight,
TheinFan Arrangement
ngement of Light Beams Was Formed
by
the Searchlight,
ache Divided
BeamrsBeing Far
Stronger Than That Flashed
from the Average
High -Power Searchlight of
the Ordinary Type.
or other means, with a strange neighbor
so distant as the Martians, Dr. Steinmetz

should certainly be fully qualified.
Dr. Steinmetz, in a recent statement,
that wireless communication with Marssaid
is
not at all improbable, and he suggested that
signals might be transmitted by radio from
a gigantic wireless plant on the Earth, which
would be charged with all the electric power
generated in the United States. This could
be accomplished for the tidy little sum of
about one billion dollars, according to Dr.
Steinmetz, and would require steel towers
at least 1,000 feet in height, in order to
transmit radio messages or signals to the
planet Mars,--which never comes any
nearer the Earth than 35,000,000 miles, and
at certain periods is 230,000,000 miles away.
After mentioning the fact that we might
accomplish the interpretation, after several
years' recording, of the stray wireless signals mentioned by Marconi and Tesla as
being picked up in their powerful radio stations, he goes on to say,-"If Mars was trying to communicate with this world, it is
doubtful if it would ever be possible
decipher the code, but it would be some tosatisfaction to know that one planet could send
messages to the other, and that intelligent
beings were inhabiting the planet from
which these messages came. We know
enough about Mars to assume that there are
inhabitants there," said Dr. Steinmetz, "and
as it is a much older planet than ours, its
inhabitants ought to be more advanced
scientific and educational investigations." in
But "It is doubtful if it would ever be
possible to decipher the code
that line over !-for it means a whole" -read
bookful when you start to really think about
it.
A SIMPLE EARTH -MARS CODE FOR

NUMERICS.
There is, perhaps, no use of talking about

communicating with Mars, or as we said
before, with a people of whom we know
absolutely nothing, but for the present we
will consider that they are duly existing,
and that they are, as some of our leading
scientists and astronomers have argued,
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Fig. I. The Latest Proposal as to

How to Signal the Inhabitants of
Mars Is That of Mr. Elmer G.
Sperry, Inventor of the World's
Most Powerful Electric Searchlight,
Mr. Sperry
Shown at Fig. I -A.
Proposes That We Employ a Battery of 200 of His 1,250,000.000
C.P. Searchlights In One Gigantic
Bank, so as to Concentrate Their
Rays in One Powerful Beam of
Light. It Is Calculated That the
Martians, If Such There Be, Cannot Miss This Blinding Flash of
Light, Which Would Appear to
Them as a Star of the 7th Magnitude, Which Is Easily Picked Up
by Our Earthly Telescopes. This
Beam of Light, Totaling 250,000,000,000 Candle- Power, Would Rival
the Sun Itself.
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thousands of years in advance of us when it comes

down to scientific matters
including the languages.
Probably they have but
one language on the order
of our rapidly growing
universal language-Esperanto.
All well and good, but
without wasting any more
time conjecturing on the
ways and means of interplanetary communication,
let us start with the fundamentals of the understanding between any two
Earthly human beings. To
do this, as one professor
of languages recently suggested to the writer, we
certainly will have to step
back to the period when
we were little children.

Go straight back to the
days of the kindergarten,
and then we are ready to
start learning the real
fundamentals of communication and understanding via the language
route between humans.
But before going further,
we might take a glance at
Fig. 2, which shows the
simplest scheme for teaching or endeavoring to communicate to another person, the elements of numeric computation.
Fig. 2 shows that two dots, plus two dots,
equal four dots. Little children are often
taught in this way by several different
schemes, how to count. Some of our ablest
scientists and astronomers have suggested
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times beyond number, that this is a very

good and plausible way to start communicating with the Martians, and not only this,
but they often carry this idea to the point
where it is claimed that eventually languages or codes explaining the languages
may be transmitted and interpreted either
by us or by the Martians.
WHAT THE
t? *!.
Co.
It take;, but a little reflection to see that,

while presumably and with average intelligence no greater than ours, in a short time
a person who doesn't know our language
at all, should be able to perceive if shown
a blackboard with this arrangement of dots,
that we were trying to impress upon him
the fact that two dots, plus two dots, equal
four dots. Well and good, but when it
comes to communicating letters or words of
a language by this method, it would seem
to be quite impossible, and altho the writer
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(Inset). You Do Not Have to Endeavor to Open

Up Wireless Telephone Communication with the "Martians" in Order to at Once Perceive That You Have
"Started Something " -so Far as It Is Possible to "Talk."
or for That Matter If It Would Ever Be Possible for You
to Learn Even One Word of Martian. The Experiment
FIg.
FORGET THE MARTIANS!
PUT A
"YANK" AND A "CHINAMAN 'JN
BLACK GEOMETRICAL
OPPOSITE ENDS OF ATELEPHONE

LINE- THIS HAS BEEN TRIED; ONE
CANNOT LEARN A SINGLE WORD
DESIGN ON WHITE
DESERT SAND
OF THE OTHERS LANGUAGE.

IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT -TRY IT
of Placing a Chinaman and a Yankee on Opposite Ends

of a Telephone Line Has Been Tried for a Considerable
Time Period, and Neither One Could Assimilate or Interpret one Word of Each Other's Language, Altho They
Fig. 6.
Talked Long and Often, Over the Telephone.
Sir Oliver Lodge Suggests That We Build Large Geometrical Figures In Black oa the White Sands of the Sahara
Desert, and He Believes That the Martians Will Understand It, as Geometry Is a Universal Study and Science.
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SIR OLIVER LODGES SUGGEETION

FOR MARTIAN SIGNALING, BY 1.5ING
GEOMETRICAL DESIGNS
ADJUSTABLE
DESIGN DEVICE
has discust this scheme with several experts

on languages, they have not been able to
think of a single method whereby it could
be carried out.
So we go back once more to the little
children in the kindergarten class. We will
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or stands for than the
wood tie-post to which you
hitch Old Dobbin except for one potent and

allimportant consideration, and that is -that in
the books from which he
studies or else by means
of the blackboard and the

skilled artistry of the
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And Wonder of Wonders! -Here Is

the Very
High- Powered Marconi
Radio Station at Which the Mysterious Dots and Dashes Filtered
In from the Ether -and Furthermore These Signals Are Believed
by the Great Marconi Himstlf to
Quite Possibly Be ''Signals of InterCommunication" Hurled at Us Thru
Miil:ons and Millions of Mlles of
Interstellar Space, Via Wireless, by
the Mart-ans. At Left We Sec the
100,000 -Meter Wave Inductance. At
Right the Wonderful Eleven -Stage
Audion Amplifier, Magnifying the
Signals 10,000,000 Fold.
April,
1920
sider for one tpoment -no matter how familiar you may be with secret codes and
ciphers-and try to think how you would
look this first Martian word squarely in the
face and endeavor to understand what object it represents! Does it represent a sea?
Does it represent a house ? -or a Martian
horse ? -or does it mean a declaration of
war between two Martian nations -and so
on and so forth.
Consider that the writer is a Martian and
that thru your powerful earthly telescope
some dark night you are confronted by a
burst of light from Mars and upon directing your telescope more minutely and accurately towards this illuminated spot on the
distant planet you read in outlines of fire
this word. There is no use of taking any
other words, for this one serves its purpose
THIS IS "REAL MARTIAN"
CAN YOU TELL WHAT
THIS WORD REPRESENTS?
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teacher, he is shown a
rat, or possibly he might
be shown live one in a

cage, or a dead one-but
in any case he does two
eave numbers out of the question, because

we cannot carry on a conversation very
well with a set of figures, -or at least we
will presume that this is not the case with
the Martians. How is a child taught the
letters of the alphabet and their final correlation into words, -and again, -the meaning of these words?
When you have thoroly philosiphized on
this elemental detail of pedagogy, you at
once become cognizant of the highly important fact that the little child who does not
know anything about the language he is to
be taught, cannot teil what such a simple
word as "R-A-T" means. He can be taught
the sounds of the letters of the alphabet so
as to pronounce them
and also how to write'
them-but as soon as he
has finished with this,

think of asking him to
things when he first learns

the meaning of any word,
in this case "rat." He is
first taught to pronounce
and how to form the letters of the word in writing, and then he is shown
simultaneously in some form the object
which the word represents.
Some one may object at this point and
say it is not so in every case that an object
representing the, word is shown simultaneously with the mastery of the word,
but the answer is that if this is not done,
then the teacher or the governess will have
to launch forth on a lengthy word- picture
explaining about the rat, let us say, and
what it looks like.
This basic element of learning any language is more forcefully shown at Fig. 3,
where there is also shown what we shall
call, for the sake of supposition, a real
Martian word, G- O- U -K -A! Now just con-
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At Fig.
2 We Have the System- Commonly Advocated For

Opening Up Communication Between the Earth and Mars
by Means of Signals Sent by Light, Radio, etc.
This Is
to Give the Martian to Understand That We Earthians
Count Two Dots Plus Two Dots as Four Dots.
It
Conjectured That in a Short Time We Can Thus InterIsCommunicate Very Nicely with Our Martian Neighbors.
If You Think, However, That Such a System as This Will
Eventually Lead to Inter -"Language" Communication and
Understanding, Try and Dope Out What the (Assumed)
Martian Word "G- O- U -KA" Means. Fig. 3. In the Next
Issue We Will Tell You.
Fig- 4.
The Most Logical
Method of Establishing Any InterLanguage Communication with a Strange People, Such as the Martians, Surely
Seems To Be by Means of "Wird Pictures." Such as
Shown Here, Flashed or Otherwise Transmitted Simultaneously, in Such a Manner That the Picture Can Bo.
Built Up. Otherwise, if the Martian Received the Letters
R -A -T by Radio and
Could Understand Them,
not Know What Our Animal the 'Rat" Looked but Did
Like
He Would Have Some Tall Difficulty in Trying
to Find
Out What R -A -T Meant, Granting, of Course, That
He
Knew Our Alphabet
the Chances Are
Life Is Different on Both Planets.That Animal
.
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The Mysterious Stray Wireless

Signals Which Have Been Recorded by the Marconi Trans -At-
lantic Station, May Have Some

Meaning Which We Do Not Un-
derstand as Yet.
It Has Been
Suggested by One Authority That
Possibly if We Have the Proper
Apparatus or Scientific Means For
Interpreting
These
Apparently
Meaningless Jumbles of Dots and
Dashes, That We May Cause
Them to Produce a "Picture."
Suppose, For Example, That You
Had a Revolving Drum Which
Was Moved on Its Axis and Covered with a Photographic Paper
or
Film.
If the incoming Radio
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PLAUSIBLE MARTIAN WORD-PICTURE

WHICH MIGHT BE RECORDED ONA
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define the word "rat"

a simple three - letter
combination. Now, it is
at once evident that the
child has no more idea
of what R -A -T means
RECORDING DOTS
INTERMITTENT RADIO SIGNALS
Dots and Dashes Were Recorded

on This Drum, They Might Pos
shly Form a "Picture and a
Word," Probably in Martian. If

We Were Able to Obtain a Considerable Number of These Word
Pictures We Could Eventually
Figure Out What the Martian
Alphabet Is. Fig. 8.
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April,
1920
lect icity
HOW the Germans sealed up over
a ton of official and secret papers
in the safes of the Swiss Con-
sulate at New York, only to be

fooled by five - tmerican adventurers, who secretly opened the wax seals
on the ropes and locks during the nights
when the office was vacant proves highly
interesting reading. The tale of these five
doughty knights, whose names are unknown
to the Government to this day, is told in
this story. These unknown workers of
Uncle Sam, who finally procured all the
secret papers and handed them over to the
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the safe, and the knots were sealed and

stamped.
The tape was also fastened
against the flat surface of the safe doors
with sealing wax and this, too, bore the
official stamp.
Because the larger safe was the most

carefully sealed up, the visitors assumed
that it must contain the most valuable
papers. They determined, therefore, to try
to open that safe first of all. But even aside
from the problem of working the combination, it looked like an impossibility to open
the doors without disturbing the tape and
seals.
In this way the seals could be removed one

at a time, without disturbing the impression
of the official stamp. Later the seals could
be glued back to the same places from
which they had been removed.
There was still the problem of getting
the tape removed from the handles of the
safe doors. But the callers hit on a plan
for doing this that made the job simple.
Instead of trying to remove the seals and
unwind the tape, they removed the little
invisible cotter -pin which held the grip part
of each handle in place. Then the whole
mass of tape could be slipt right over the
OFFICIAL
COLORED
WAX SEALS
TAPE SEALED
ALONG CRACKS
PLACED
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1920
-But
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P. Co,
4,000 Mlles
One of the Most Absorbing Chapters of "World War" History, Which Was Actually Enacted Not on the "Battle- Front"
From It, in a Quiet Little Consulate Office Located in New York City, Is Here Told by the Author. The Germans, When They Left Amer..
ica, Placed Over a Ton of Valuable Papers In the Safes of the Swiss Consulate, and Plastered Up the Cracks of the Doors, and the Locks
With Rope, Paper Tape, and Wax Seals Bearing the Imperial German Seal. Not to Excite Suspicion, Five Adventurous Americans Succeeded Finally, Thanks to the Clever Electric Heater Here Illustrated, in Removing the Seals Without Damaging Them-Procuring All the
Secret and Valuable Papers -and Then Gluing the Seals Back Into Place.
Government, hired a suite of offices in the

building where the papers were stored.
First they had their lock expert fashion
a key to the outer door of the consular
offices, and one night they went there to
look the layout over. To all appearances
the German papers were stored in two large
safes, several sections of metal filing cases
and a steel trunk.
Each safe and each filing case was bound
around with rope and with red- white-andblack tape -in much the same manner that
a shoe -box is tied with a piece of string at
a store. The knots in the tape or rope
were invariably covered with sealing wax
of a special kind not easily imitated, and
the wax was stamped with the official German seal.
Particular care had been given, apparently, to the sealing up of the larger safe.
Pieces of sealing wax, bearing the official
stamp, had been stuck at intervals all along
the cracks at the edges of the safe doors.
Official tape had been wound back and forth
between the handles of the double doors of
HOW
ELECTRICITY REMOVED
SEALS UNDAMAGED.
GERMAN
If these seals were noticeably marred it

soon would be discovered that the safe had
been tampered with. This would prevent
later visits, and furthermore, if it became
known that the papers were gone, part of
the value they might have in tracing German agents might be lost.
The visitors saw that if they were to open
the safe and not have their work afterward
discovered they would need several ingenious tools. When they returned a few
nights later they were equipt with such tools
and devices as were required. The most
noteworthy of these was an electrical contrivance which could be attached to one of
the electric light sockets near the safe.
The working part of this consisted of a
Y- shaped instrument between the two prongs
of which was stretched a fine wire. This
wire, when heated by the electrical current,
could be past underneath the seals where
they adhered to the flat surface of the safe.
knob of the handle. All very simple!

The handles showed slight blemishes
where the pins had been removed, but this
was quickly remedied simply by polishing
the abrasion in the nickel -plating and applying a little nickel -plating solution.
The job of opening the safe, removing the
contents and restoring the safe to its previous condition occupied the five men from
about 11 o'clock at night until toward daylight. It was many days before they dared
return to continue their search. While the
nature of the papers in this safe was disappointing, the Germans, with typical German inefficiency, had left in the safe a great
quantity of paper seals of exactly the same
kind that they had used in sealing up the
drawers of the metal filing cases. The possession of these seals greatly simplified the
job of opening those drawers later on.
On a certain night while the Americans
were at work on these files, a man, now supposed to have been the night watchman,
came along and nearly stumbled upon them.
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April,
1920
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The Deaf
By Ho GEIL3HaBACK
WHEN I was sixteen I secured an
series with the 6 -volt storage battery and mechanical suspension of the
old- fashioned Path phonograph
the primary of an induction coil such as fram must be the same as the carbon diaone for the
of the cylindrical record type. is used in telephone work.
mica -diafram. In other words, the vibraYou know the kind that was in
The writer used a regulation sound box tions of the phonograph
needle must be
vogue years ago. Being much in- merely by making
microphone out of it
faithfully past onto the carbon diafram,
terested in electricity in those days, the and substituting a acarbon
for the the same as is the case with the mica type.
thought occurred to me, the same as it mica diafram. The spacediafram
the
When the connections are correctly made
occurred to thousands of others, namely, back carbon and the carbonbetween
diafram is and two handles are now attached to the
why not transmit the music electrically by filled out with polisht carbon grains.
The secondary of the induction coil, and these
putting a sensitive microphone somewhere
graspt in your hands, the rhythm of the
on the phonograph and thus get the music
music will be felt faithfully and with
at a distance.
astonishing fidelity. What we do feel is
No sooner said than done. An old sound vibration translated into electrical
fashioned Hughes microphone was conimpulses which in turn are felt physiostructed by means of three little carbon
logically by the human nerves. It is surrods, and this miniature microphone was
prising how well this translated music is
attached to the sound box. The microcommunicated to thenervous system of the
phone was in series with a battery and
human being, and with a little practise it
the primary of an ordinary telephone inbecomes possible to recognize the different
duction coil. The music transmission was
tunes merely by the variations of the little
excellent and phonograph music was transtingling shocks.
mitted over a distance of three hundred
Different records were tried in 1917, but
yards on my father's estate. These experijust then the United States entered into
ments created quite a sensation in those
the war, and the experiments came to a
days, and my friends, all elecsudden end. Recently, however,
trical "bugs," were much elated
they were taken up again with
MICROPHONE
and pleased with the stunt.
the following results. ImproveOne evening I accidentally
ments were made on the microtouched the two wires of the
phone and a great many new
secondary terminals of the teletypes were tried out, because the
LOUD TALKER
phone coil and was quite suroriginal type was not entirely
prised to get a smart and dissatisfactory. Later experiments,
agreeable shock. That was in
however, proved to me that the
1900.
The early experiments
1917 type in principle was probwere soon forgotten, but in
ably the best that could be pro1917, while editing an article in
duced. From some ten or twelve
this magazine, where a young"
types which were evolved by me
man had re-discovered the anthen, a few are shown here.
cient experiment, I thought of
Many different records were
that shock, and I understood imtried, and it seemed to be readily
mediately what that shock really
e s t a b is h t that the different
was. I accordingly set to work
tunes, the different musical inand immediately built a new
struments, as well as voices,
transmitter which was attached
could be readily differentiated
to a Victor phonograph sound
physiologically without listening
box, and which is shown in
Fig. 4. The connections are Mr. Gernsback Demonstrating the Physlophone. The Ph otograph at all to the music, or without
Shows How the Instruments Are Connected.
hearing any sound whatsoever.
By Means of the
shown from which it will be
Double Pole Switch, the Music Is Reproduced by
a Loud Talker,
Of course, it goes without sayseen that the microphone is in
Then the Switch Is Thrown, and Physiological Music
Is Had.
ing that such experiments must
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Double Barreled Music.
Showing How an Audience Can Enjoy the Music Orally As Well As Physiologically.
Music and You Feel It As Well. A Brand New Source of Enjoyment.
In Other Words You Hear the
April,
1920
to Dance by Means of Physiological Music.

During Tests With Totally Deaf People, They All Expressed a Great Desire
Deaf Person Can Now Dance Without Any Trouble by Means of Physiological Music.
be made with the phonograph in a different

part of the building with the handles so far
away that the music from the phonograph
cannot be heard at all. When using the
microphone type as shown in Fig. 4, the
sound near the phonograph is still audible, altho not anywhere near as loud as
if the original mica -diafram were used.
For this reason the handles must be

located in another room so that whatever
music leaves the phonograph cannot be
heard. I used a double -throw switch and
a loud talker of the type commercially sold,
and invited visitors to first listen to the
phonograph record by means of the loud
talker. Then the switch was thrown, and
of course no sound was heard at all. By
grasping the handles, the visitors could
readily follow the rhythm of the record,
and right here a curious thing happens.
Some people, altho musically inclined,
have trouble in following the music, while
others immediately recognize the different
strains and have no trouble to sing or
whistle with this physiological music.
There seems to be a difference in the nervous system of individuals, and some people can more readily translate the rhythm
than others, altho not necessarily more
musically inclined. Other tests were made
paralleling the idea by using no phonograph
at all, but simply a microphone into which
a person spoke. By having the experimenter count from one to a hundred, the
other party at the far end could feel the
voice impulses and after a while managed to "understand" the voice by physiological impulses.
In Fig. 1 is shown another type of transmitter attacht in front of the sound box
in the phonograph. It consists simply of
three transmitters connected in parallel, the
connections being the same as usual. This,
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Due to the Rhythm
two transmitters were simply attached to

the needle holder, the rubber band serving
simply to feather the action, but the results in neither case were good, and the
original 1917 type transmitter with certain
refinements has been found to work best
in all respects.
What purpose is accomplisht by these
experiments? Ordinary human beings certainly do not require the translation of
musical impulses into their nervous system, but for the deaf a vast and important
field has been opened. Here we have a
means of translating music into the nervous system of a deaf person who has not
the slightest conception of music. Of
course, it should be understood right here
that I do not mean to convey the idea that
a deaf person will actually "hear" the
music. What he does get, however, is the
rhythm, and he certainly gets this very
definitely as has been actually demonstrated by tests with deaf persons upon
which the writer experimented. It has
been found that a deaf person can readily
understand the different musical pieces, and
can even recognize different musical instruments with very little practise.
Of course, the deaf person must learn
the same as any other human being, for it
is a well -known fact that if a person
totally deaf were restored his hearing, he
would not be able to understand what you
said to him for some time to come. He
would have to learn and judge the sound
just the same as a child. The same is the
case with a totally blind person who has
never seen daylight. Experiments made
with such people invariably prove that as
soon as the eyesight is restored, they do
not see in the sense that the normal person
Schematic Illustration of the Com(Continued on page 1320)
ponents of the Physiophone.
however, did not work as well, and very

little could be felt at the secondary end.
In Fig. 2 is shown two transmitters, because the writer at one time when working with a single transmitter on a disc
type phonograph did not receive all the impulses, that is to say, only one side of the
lateral cut vibrated the diafram.
The same idea is shown in Fig. 3 where
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April,
E,ectrco-,Meclicemi,
laY
FROM tame immemorial, people of
this and foreign countries have allowed a class of humbugs and

fakers to foist upon them innumerable cure -all devices and medicines.
Not alone have these quack doctors been
charging exorbitant prices for worthless
trash, but they have also caused various
injuries and hardships to those attempting
to manipulate or apply these worthless
humbugs "as per directions."
In medicines, even today, the market is
full of glaring advertisements of remedies
which formerly were claimed to cure anything from a corn to a malignant tumor.
Some of these fakers and quack doctors
have been enjoined from ever again manufacturing or offering for sale, any medicines of any kind and the harvests of five
hundred thousand to several million dollars
annually, is lost forever to them. Like all
schemes of this nature, these individuals
produce testimonial upon testimonial to
prove ( ?) that their goods are as wonderful as they claim them to be and with
the boldest effrontery, produce advertisements such as "Five Hundred Dollars will
be paid to any one who can prove that
these letters are not genuine, or have been
solicited." This seems to pave the way to
the enormous financial profits recorded by
them in income tax reports and demonstrates to what an extent they have hoodwinked the Public.
It is only necessary for us to watch the
continuous panorama of advertisements
which bunko medicine houses use and view
the daily death column in the paper to note
the marked similarity of names of persons
who have died of the same disease, which,
two days later, the cure -all concern announces it had cured. "Dead men tell no
tales" as the old adage goes, and hence, we
will not stop to even question whether or
not the individuals concerned in the treatment, ever had used it, but if so, the remarkable results are clearly indicated by
the "slow procession."
One of the greatest frauds of all time
and finally declared by the Government to
be simply a scheme for obtaining money
thru the mails by means of pretexts and
fraudulent promises, and to which further
use of the mails was denied, was the "great"
and "wonderful" ACTINA humbug. Perhaps many of our readers remember this
Actina inhaler, having probably seen advertisements of it thruout the country.
This device sold at about ten dollars and
later on, if the correspondents did not answer, a 50 per cent discount on any goods
was offered.
Essentially, it consists of an outer casing
about three inches long with a wide opening at one end, and a narrow opening at
the other. An inner tube of perforated
zinc about
inch wide and fitting inside
the first tube or casing (this made of copper). The American product, however,
was entirely of steel. The space between
the two walls shown in illustration (1) was
filled with oil of mustard and oil of sassafras. The former smells like a decayed
onion and great caution must be exercised
when smelling this oil, hence the Actina
advertisements stating that it was perfectly
harmless were not only fraudulent, but also
of great injurious content. This swindle
"cured" deafness, blindness, catarrh, and
nervousness and a couple of other odds
and ends thrown in.
The American Medical Association, in
their expos propaganda, speaking of its
effect in curing any eye or ear disease,
state that the sufferer might just as well
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and with more safety, blow red pepper up

his nose, and get his sneeze cheaper than
by sniffing at a $10.00 evil smell.
This fraud claimed, in addition, to be
an ozone battery, the electric action of
which was due to the copper and zinc involved in its construction. We would
refer the reader to several past descriptions of real ozone generators and recall
to his mind that even the smallest of these
generators was comparatively bulky and
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"May" E. E.
Peace Time Uses for the Search new scheme for outlining
airplane field with' one search'ight,
by Edwin F. Linder, M. E., Specialist in Searchlight Design and Inventor of Bullet-proof Mirror.
The Automatic Telephone -Simple explanation in picture and in diagram by an expert in Automatic
Telephony.
F!ashlighting Birds and Animals,
by Howard Taylor Middleton.
The "Loadstoue" or Natural Magnet-Specially written by an expert
on loadstones, with special illustrations.
A Day With the Weatherman
The rle of electro-mechanics in foretelling your daily weather report, by
H. Il infield .S'ecor.
"Odd Photo" Prize Contest.
"House -hold Electrics" page, by
Edna Purdy.
The 11%hy and Wherefore of Magnetism, by Edward A. Keever,
How Glass Is Made-All about
glass, the everyday substance about
which we know so little, by Prof.
Floyd L. Darrow.
Popular Astronomy, by Isabel M.
Lewis, M.A.
The Amateur Magician-The Mysterious "Rapping Hand" which foretells your fortune, by Joseph H.
Kraus.
Long Waves and "Strays" on Rogers' Antennae, by Lieut. -Cont. A.
Hoyt Taylor, U.S.N.R.F.
Some Laboratory!! -An interesting
story with excellent photographs of
an American model worker's shop de
luxe-Written as only he can write
it, by Thomas Reed.
More Light for Microscopes, by
Merrill M. Hunting.
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yet we find here, a company deciding that

ozone can be generated by electric action
( ?) between the zinc and the copper, while
held in the hand. Additional fakes made
by the same concern were the Magneto
Conservative Garment shwn in Fig. 3.
This garment, which was claimed to cure
anything from indigestion to locomotor
ataxia, looked like a suit of underwear
with a large number of bar magnets,
oodles and oodles of them, scattered thruout its interior.
Such magnetic devices never cured nor
did they ever have even the slightest effect

upon the individual. Such bunko devices
as the magnetic hair brushes and combs,
"cold feet" pads generating electricity due
to the action between the copper and zinc
plates, and electric belts, not only never
cured, but also made themselves uncomfortable to the wearer.
Out of hundreds of claims for testimonials, not one cure could be authenticated
by the use of the various devices here re-
ferred to.
In order to note the effect of magnetism
on the human body, tests were made in
France (see Fig. 2), which involved the
use of gigantic electro-magnets capable of
forming the most intense magnetic fields.
Persons placed under the effect of this
ultra -powerful magnetic flux were care-
fully watched and every movement recorded with remarkable accuracy and precision. The pulse rate, heart beat, breathing, and reflex responses from the various
nerve centers were noted and in no case
was even the slightest change effected
when the person was first under magnetic
influence and again when the current was
turned off.
This fact is well worth remembering.
When once thoroly learned, people will not
be bamboozled by any device which claims
as its healing power, magnetism of any
sort. Under this category, come also such
ridiculous schemes and such flagrant misrepresentations as Electro- magnetic Rings
which cure everything from nose bleed
down to appendicitis, and varicose veins.
Another of the wonderful deafness cures
which was perhaps more magical and mystical than the former was that of (Dr.)
Branaman. This device would cure deafness or catarrh, head noises or asthma, so
quickly that you would not even know it,
regardless of what the deafness was due
to. The poor afflicted victim was given a
symptom blank which he filled out and
whether he could add yes to every question
or no to every question asked thereon, he
was either pronounced deaf or suffering
from catarrh.
The contrivance altho selling for $8.00,
cost about $1.50 to make. Essentially, it is
a leather belt strapt securely around the
head, made in the form of a pocket. This
houses the "battery." The battery is the
same as employed in the audacious commercial frauds even now being advertised
and manufactured in the form of belts.
These consist of a number of copper and
zinc elements, the zinc being placed inside
the copper. Around the zinc element is a
tiny bit of felt so that when the battery is
immersed in a vinegar solution an electric
current is set up! These electric currents
buzz thru the ears and stimulate in that
way, the nerves of hearing, according to
Dr. Branaman, America's leading ear specialist (at least he calls himself that) he
even went so far as to publish advertisements in the newspapers showing the
photograph of a man as being cured of
deafness and blindness. This man had
been deaf for years and was still deaf
and this Dr. Branaman knew. Still he
persisted and continued to use the victim's
name in his advertising slogans. Strange
to say, a testimonial purported to have been
written by the man, was printed altho the
victim was so unfortunate as to be unable
to write.
Even today, in some of our newspapers
and magazines perhaps we find advertisements that start off with a big flare "Don't
shout, use the Morley ear phone." This
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April,
1920
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CHARLES S. WOLFE
THE Chief of Police gave me a hos-
tile questioning stare. I'm not exceptionally quick witted, but I don't
have to be hit with a club in order
to grasp an idea. I rose instantly.
"Something tells me I am de trop," I murmured.
My friend put out a protesting hand.
"Sit down, you touchy ass," he said.
"Chief, this man is a particular friend of
mine. You can safely say anything in his
presence. It will go no farther."
Undecided whether to go or stay, I hesitated. The Chief smiled sourly. "Oh, it's
all right, Mister, if Joe here says so. But
forget anything you hear, get me? We
can't afford leaks."
whole clan had no terrorizing influence on

Joe.
The Chief dropt wearily into the nearest chair. "You'll have to pardon me,
friend," he growled at me, "I'm a little
short on manners at the best of times, and
this thing is getting on my nerves. Joe,"
turning to Fenner, I want you to help us
again."
I turned a mental summersault. The
Chief of Police addressing my chum as
Joe. Asking him to help them-again.
Ye Gods
Was my seemingly commonplace chum a detective?
The Chief was speaking. "There was
a man killed in the Atwood building an
hour ago. I've just come from there."
!
about them, anyway, Chief ?" queried Joe.

"Well, for one thing, we can't find the
knife, or whatever it was that he was
stabbed with."
"Murderer took it away with him," suggested Fenner.
The Chief's face took on a pained look.
"Maybe he did," he said, wearily, "only
there's no possible way he could get in to
stab the man in the first place, and no way
that he could get out after he had stabbed
him in the second place. And in the third
place the crime simply couldn't have been
committed at all, but it was. And there
you are."
"Chief, you're talking thru your hat,"
reproved the amazing Fenner with astound-
This Is a Story of An "Educated Harpoon," and We Are Not Going to Tell You In a Few Words Just What It Is or How It came About That
a Great Business Man Was Murdered In His Private Office, Without Anyone Having Entered the Office, As the Facts of the Case Have
Clearly Proven. However, If You Have a Fair Education In Electricaland Radio Matters, You May Be Able to Guess How the Man Was
Killed. If Not, You Will Find This One of the Most Interesting Scientific Narrations Ever Written.
Joe saw that I intended to go, and he

crost and forced me back into my chair.
"Don't mind the Chief, Bill," he said,
laughingly. "He has an inherently suspicious disposition. Now then, Chief, what
is troubling you ?"
I gasped. I knew Joe Fenner as a fellow student, wireless telegraph enthusiast
and scientific dabbler. A mighty likable,
but not extraordinary, sort of a fellow. To
find him on terms of intimacy -to say
nothing of equality -with the Chief of our
city's police force was astounding. Personally, I've always had a little fear of
policemen, a relic of boyhood days and
pranks. Apparently the king -bee of the
My face must have reflected the varying

emotions that this statement produced
within me, but Joe's countenance remained passive. "Murdered," he asked,
quietly. "How ?"
"Stabbed in the back." The Chief might
have been saying "Please pass the potatoes," for all the .feeling exprest in his
tones.
Joe shrugged his shoulders. "I don't
think, you want me, then," he said. "It's
out of my line."
"Yes, you'd think so," agreed the Chief,
"if it wasn't for the peculiar circumstances
surrounding the crime."
"Peculiar circumstances? What's peculiar
ing disregard of the deference due one in

the Chief's position. "There must be a
perfectly simple way in which some one
got into the place and away again."
The Chief arose. "My car's outside,"
he said. "Come along down and have a
look."
As Fenneriesitated I took_ my cue. "I'll
ride along as far as my house if you don't
mind," I said.
"You'll ride along and have a look with
me," said Fenner, warmly. "I know you're
just as curious as I am to-get a took at
the scene of this remarkable crime."
The Chief was almost friendly. "Yes,"
April,
1920
1257
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ARGE corporations of today do not

waste and take up the valuable time
of high-salaried executives by leaving it to them to.prepare and properly route the dispatches of the
firm in the most economical way. Instead
a specially trained clerk, preferably one who
has had experience in a telegraph or cable
office, is assigned to this work; and all telegrams, cablegrams and radiograms must
be routed thru him before forwarding.
However, since it is not every organization
whose business warrants the employment of
such a clerk, nevertheless the smaller concerns may profit by some timely information
on this subject. Particularly is this needed
today, for in the mad scramble to "get the
business" little details like economy in the
use of words in telegrams and cablegrams
are seldom taken seriously.
The writer, who during the war had an
opportunity to study various systems of
communications, both government and commercial, was surprised at the lack of common sense and knowledge displayed by some
firms and individuals when sending dispatches. In some instances no efforts were
made to economize in the use of words,
and in a fifteen -word cablegram as many
as five unnecessary words would be used,
which in the case of messages destined to
remote points. costing 42 cents per word,
meant a loss of $2.10. On the other hand,
there were those who were seeking economy by the wrong methods, and thru lack
of proper knowledge of rules would attempt

to combine words in an illegitimate manner
in order to lower the cost of the message.
In either case much money and time was

lost in harangues and disputes between
themselves and the cable clerks, which could
have been avoided by securing the necessary information in very short, order from
competent telegraph clerks or from other
experienced persons.
Besides the telephone there are three general means of rap'd verbal communication
with distant points as follows and in the
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for the same charge, additional words being charged for according to rate per word.
(2) The night message, which is handled
during the night only when traffic is small
and for which reduced rates are charged.
This message is usually delivered in the
morning of the following business day.
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tally the same manner as the night message,

but may contain fifty or less words, and is
charged for at the same rate as a regular
day telegram for fifty words. Additional
words are charged for at the rate of one fifth of the regular day message rate for
every ten words or less.
light lettergrams must
Note: Day an
be written in plain' English, foreign language, code or cipher not being accepted by
telegraph companies.
The domestic telegraph message differs
essentialy from the cable and wireless in
that the text is the only part charged for;
the address and signature being sent free of
cost to the sender. Some essential and

general rules regarding the transmission of
telegraph messages may be briefly described
as follows
(1) The complete address as well as one
signature are not counted nor charged for.
(2) Any dictionary word Of a recognized
language, that is, the English, German,
French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese or Latin,
may be used and will be counted as one
word, no matter how many,letters the word
contains.
(3) All numerals, decimal points, punctuation points, whether isolated or together,
are counted and charged for as one word
each.
(4) Names of places, states or countries,
such as New York City, Havre de Grace,
Camp Dix, District of Columbia, East St.
Louis, South Orange, may be combined and
counted as one word each, and in order to
simplify counting, should be written thus :
Newyorkcity, Havredegrace, etc.
(5) Mutilated dictionary words, written
together contrary to accepted usage of the
language, or combinations of several dictionary words will be counted and charged
for according to the number of words they
are composed of. For example, such words
as "firstclass, "allright," "postoffice," etc.,
are counted as two words.
(6) Such words as "parcelpost," "percent," "carload," "O.K.," "A.M.," "P.M.,"
"C. O. D.," "F. O. B.," are counted and
charged for as one word each, because
these are recognized by custom to be single words.
(7) Code words and cipher words may be
used. Code words not exceeding ten letters,
and cipher words not exceeding five letters
are counted and charged for as one word
:
each.
(8) Only one address and one signature

are allowed in one message, two or more
signatures being charged for as so many
Photo Courtesy Donald McNicol.
And Speaking of the Dispatch of Telegraph Messages-Here Is the "Distribution Board"

Which Links Our Local Telegraph Office, Manned by Two or Three Operators, with the
Large Staff of Telegraphers iln the Main Telegraph Exchange In New York City. Each
Operator's Position on the Long Dispatch Tables Is Connected with a "Tell- Tale" Signal
Lamp on the Front of the Switchboard. The Operator, who Sits in Front of this Board,
Can Thus See at Any Instant Just Which Operators Are Idle. A,Branch Exchange, Desiring to Transmit a Message, Signals Thru a Lamp on the Table of the Board, and All
the Operator Has Then to Do is to Take One of the Plugs Beside This Lamp and Connect It with a Jack Connecting with an Idle Operator. The Battery of Relays on the
Right -Hand Side of the Frame Are Connected to the Various Branch Exchange Circuits
and Cause the Signal Light In Each Case to Remain Lit Until Connection Is Properly
Made by the Distribution Operator.
extra words, whichever the case may be.

(9) Numerals in the body of a domestic
message are counted and charged for as one
word for each individual numeral.
THE CABLEGRAM.
The cablegram is a more complex and

detailed subject than the domestic telegram,
and in.order to avoid errors requires judgment and accuracy on the part of -the sender.
One reason for this is that it is usually sent
to foreign lands, which entails handling by
many hands, and the cost is considerably
greater per word than the telegram. In the
case of the cablegram, every part of the
message is charged for with one exception
-the name of the country to which it is
destined, such as France, Italy, etc. In preparing the message these names are usually
bracketed to avoid counting and charging
for them. The manner of counting words
is known and usually referred to as the
"cable count,' which same is also employed
in checking wireless messages or radiograms. Owing to the fact that cablegrams
are expensive, commercial houses make extensive use of code and cipher in order to
lessen the number of words and therefore
reduce the cost.
Several well -known codessin commercial
use today are:
ABC Codes, 4thand 5th Editions.
Lieber's Improved Code.
Western Union Code.
A. I. Code.
Bentley's Code.
Century Code.
Scott's Code, 10th Edition.
Riverside Code.
Imperial Code.
Bromley's Code.
Broomhall's Code.
Typical code words : Codiac, Gopher,
Staticallo, Nomadimice.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PLAIN LANGUAGE,
CODE AND CIPHER.
Plain language, as referred to in cablegrams or radiograms, may be any language
Many of Us No Doubt Entertain the Idea That There Are Two or Three Undersea Cables
Spanning the Atlantic Ocean Between Europe and America, but a Glance at This Latest
Cable Map of the Atlantic Ocean Tells a Different Story. There Are, In All, Seventeen Cables
Linking the Old and the New Worlds.
using the Latin alphabet and Arabic system

of numerals. In using plain language in a
cable or radiogram any legitimate word may
be counted as one word up to and including fifteen letters ; beyond that point and
for each additional fifteen letters it is considered and charged for as two words, tho
the word need not necessarily be disconnected. For instance, the word "unconstitutional," which contains sixteen letters, is
counted as two words.
Code language consists of genuine or artificial words of a pronounceable nature, but
which may have a different face meaning
and are counted and charged for at the
rate of ten letters to the word. When code
words of an artificial nature exceed ten
1260
Weilt
April,
1920
art
By LOUIS DERR
Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Specially Written for the Electrical Experimenter
IF
the earth could be weighed like
a load of coal, how much would

it weigh ?
Is it composed of
light materials principally, or
heavy ones? How can anything

be learned about the matter? It is the
purpose of this article to give a brief
outline of some of the methods by
which questions like these are answered.
Sir Isaac Newton's celebrated law
of universal gravitation, publisht in
1687, states that every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a
force proportional to the product of
their masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. As may readily be imagined, the law was deduced from
astronomical facts, and finds its most
important applications in astronomy,
for by it the motions of the moon,
the planets and other celestial bodies
are determined.
There are, however, too many unknown factors in the formula to make
it directly available for calculating the
mass of the earth from astronomical
data. Five quantities are involved, of
which four must be known in order
to calculate the fifth : the force between the two bodies, their respective
masses, the distance separating them,
and a numerical constant whose value
depends on the units in which force,
mass and distance are exprest. If we
wish to know the mass of the earth in
pounds or tons, we must take some
selected body on the earth's surface
and compare the earth's attraction for
it with the attraction of some other
known body for it, at a known distance. The working difficulty is that
bodies of manageable size, separated
Fig.
8. This Shows the Remarkably Sensitive Cavendish Type Apparatus With the Small and Large Lead
Balls, Reflecting Mirror, Etc., Actually Used in Determining the Weight and Density of the Earth, at the
Present Date, by Professor Louis Derr and His Associates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Mass.
by
Fig. 1. Diagram Showing How the French

Physicist, Bouguer, Attempted to Weigh the
Earth by Noting the Pull of a Mountain
Mass on a Suspended Bob, or Weight, In
1740. A Deflection of 16 Seconds of Arc Was
Actually Observed, and From This Ratio, as
Compared to the Pull of the Earth Upon the
Bob, lt Was Possible to Compute the Average Density of the Earth.
Fig.
2. This Shows the Arrangement Fol.

lowed by Rev. Nevi! Maskelyne in 1774, In
Which Case He Chose a Mountain In Scotland for His Experiments. One Plumb Line
Was Placed South of the Mountain, and
Another North of lt. The Ratio Between the
Pull of the Earth and the Pull of the Mountain Was Readily Observed, and the Density
of the Earth Then Computed.
controllable distances, exert so feeble a

gravitational pull upon each other that the
measurement is a problem of considerable
magnitude.
The problem is an old one, and has been

attacked many times and from many angles.
The results obtained are usually given in
figures representing the average density of
the earth, a quantity of perhaps more
scientific interest than the mere statement
of its mass. Of course, if the mass and
volume are known the average density is
found simply by dividing one by the other.
Perhaps the earliest definite results are
those obtained by the French physicist,
Bouguer, about 1740. He hung up a plumbline, ten miles east of the great mountain
mass of the Cordilleras in Peru, and then
moved it close to the mountain range. He
reasoned that if the mountains exerted any
attraction for the suspended bob, the line
would no longer hang vertically, but would
be tipt slightly. This is shown in Fig. 1.
The deflection was actually observed. and
was found to be about sixteen seconds of
arc. This gave a ratio between the pull of
the mountain on the hanging bob and the
pull of the earth upon it (its weight, of
course) and from this ratio it was possible
to compute the average density of the earth,
which was figured out as about twelve
times the density of water. The experiments were carried out with great difficulty, and the result is now known to be
much too large, but Bouguer's work was
of pioneer importance in that it showed
that the earth is denser than water, that it
could not be regarded as hollow, in view of
the large average density, and that mountain masses do attract.
In 1774 the Rev. Nevil Tfackelyne, Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, employed
a somewhat different method, choosing a
mountain in Scotland for his experiments.
Fig. 2 shows his arrangements. One plumb-
line was placed just south of the mountain, another just north of it. Now,
from the known circumference of the
earth and the measured distance between the plumb -lines, the difference
of longitude between the two stations
could easily be calculated, and the
angle between the vertically hanging
plumb-lines would have been 41 seconds of arc if the mountain were not
there. Actually the angle was 53 seconds, the mountain having pulled the
plumb -line six seconds out of the vertical on each side. This is indicated in
the figure.
From this, as before, the relative pull
of the mountain and the earth on the
suspended bob could be determined,
and when geologists had studied the
mountain and estimated its mass the
mass of the earth could be easily computed. Its average density came out
4.71 times that of water. Other trials,
near Edinburgh, gave 5.32.
The weak point of the method is
the difficulty of accurately estimating
the mass of the attracting hill or
mountain, and therefore the results
obtained by methods involving the
measurement of earth masses cannot
be accepted as accurate. It is obviously necessary to have everything
under complete control, and this has
been accomplisht in several ways.
Poynting's method (1890) is as follows: Two metal balls were carefully
counterpoised on a very delicate balance, and the position of the balance
pointer noted by an observer looking
through a telescope from another
room. Then a huge ball of lead weighing 350 pounds was cautiously moved
to a position just below one of the sus-
Fig. 3. This Shows Poynting's Method of

Weighing the Earth. Two Metal Balls Were
Carefully Counterpoised on a Delicate Balance or Scale. A Large Ball of Lead Was
Then Moved to a Position Just Below One
of the Suspended Balls and Its Direction
Caused the Balance to Tip. The Pull of the
Large Ball Could Thus Be Weighed Directly,
Having Been About One Millionth of a Pound.
Fig. 4. This Illustrates a More Advanced

Method of Weighing the Earth, Devised by
Henry Cavendish, In London, In 1798. In
This Case Two Small Metal Balls Are Suspended From a Fine Wire, and Two Larger
Lead Balls Are Then Placed, One Behind
and the Other In Front of the Suspended
Balls. The Attraction of the Large Balls
Thus Deflected the Rod Carrying the Small
Masses, and This Deflection Could Be Recorded or Thrown on a Screen, by Means of
a Mirror Mounted on the Suspension Wire
and on Which a Beam of Light Was Focused.
April,
1920
pended balls, and its attraction caused the

balance to tip slightly, as indicated in Fig. 3.
The pull of the 350 -pound ball was thus
weighed directly ; in the actual experiment
it was about one millionth of a pound.
But the most accurate results of all have
been obtained thru a method devised by
Rev. John Mitchell. He did not live to
carry out his project, and the experiments
were first made by Henry Cavendish in
London, in 1798. Cavendish took a slender
rod seven feet long with a small metal ball
at each end and suspended it horizontally
by a very fine wire. A large ball of lead,
twelve inches in diameter, was then brought
up in front of one of the suspended balls,
and a second lead ball of the same size
placed behind the other suspended ball, as
shown in plan in Fig. 4. The attraction of
the large balls thus deflected the rod and
the hanging balls, until the deflecting pull
was just balanced by the twist in the wire.
The force was then calculated from the deflection.
Within recent years the apparatus of
Cavendish has been much improved and
given vastly greater sensitiveness, especially
by Prof. C. V. Boys, a noted British physicist. Fig. 5 shows one form of the apparatus.
The suspended balls weigh one- fortieth
of an ounce each, and are about an inch
and a half apart. The large attracting
masses are of lead, about the size of a baseball, and weigh about six pounds each. The
suspension is a fine thread of quartz, eighteen inches long and about one- twelfth the
diameter of a human hair. Fig. 6 shows
the quartz thread and a human hair equally
magnified, and it must be admitted that the
quartz thread is much the handsomer of
the two. The fibers are made by melting
the edges of two quartz crystals together
and then quickly sepan ing them, just as
glass threads may be ch awn by heating a
glass rod in the middle and pulling the
ends apart.
The deflection, which is very small, may
be made visible to an audience in the following way. A tiny mirror is fastened to
the little rod carrying the swinging balls,
as shown in Fig. 7, and a narrow beam of
light from an electric lamp is reflected from
the mirror upon a scale on a distant wall.
Any motion of the mirror is thus shown
by a displacement of the spot of light on
the wall, and the device practically amounts
to putting a long pointer on the swinging
arm, a pointer of any desired length, perfect stiffness and no weight!
The apparatus requires various accessories, an extremely steady support for the
suspended balls being the most important.
This steadiness is obtained by mounting the
swinging system on a heavy iron frame or
cage hung from a bracket on the wall of
the room and provided with large adjustable weights at its extremities. These
weights are set by trial at such points as to
destroy accidental vibrations as completely
as possible, and when properly adjusted
they are very effective. Fig. 8 shows the
arrangement worked out at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The experiment, tho not spectacular, is
nevertheless a striking one, and is occa-
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Fig.
This Diagram Shows How a Narrow

Beam of Light Is Reflected From a Mirror
on the Quartz Fiber, Suspending the Swinging Balls In the Cavendish Balance, Used In
Determining the Density and Weight of the
Earth.
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Fig. 5. The Early Cavendish Apparatus Is

Shown at Left. A More Modern Type of
Cavendish Balance Is Shown at the Right,
and Which Was Much Improved and Gained
Vastly Greater Sensitivity Under Development by Prof. C. V. Boys, a Noted British
Physicist.
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sionally shown at some of the larger colleges and technical schools. With the apparatus at rest, the spot of light on the
wall is almost motionless, perhaps quivering a little when someone treads heavily
on the floor above. But when the large
lead balls are moved into position, altho
nothing apparently happens for a minute or
thereabouts, the spot of light then begins to
creep slowly over the scale with a motion
that very slowly but surely increases until
the displacement is a yard or more on a
wall forty or fifty feet away. No haste
can be expected, for with the apparatus
illustrated the force on the little balls is
start with a knowledge of the force, the

distance and one of the masses, and compute the other mass -the mass of the earth.
A simple proportion, derived from the experiment just described, then gives the mass
of the earth directly.
The resulting figure is so stupendous
that it is utterly meaningless the mass of
the earth is 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (six
sextillon) tons. It may be added that its
average density is 5.52 times that of water.
:
THE "UNIVERSE" ON A SMALL

SCALE.
"Mars always challenges interest," says

William Joseph Showalter in a recent communication to the National Geographic Society.
E E.
Fig. 6. This Photo Shows the Remarkable

Smoothness and Even Diameter of a Quartz
Thread Compared to a Human Halr, Both
Equally Magnified. The Quartz Thread Is
Used to Suspend the Two Small Balls In the
Cavendish Balance.
no greater than the weight of about one

one -hundred -thousandth of an inch of hu-
man hair!
The "conscientious objector" now rises
to ask how it is possible to measure a force
so absurdly small, and the answer is that
the force is not measured directly, but obtained by calculation. By knowing the
weights and the dimensions of the swinging parts of the apparatus, and the time
required for a complete swing back and
forth (just as the balance wheel of a watch
swings), it is possible to calculate the force
required to produce any given deflection,
and in this way the pull of the lead balls
on the suspended system may be figured.
With the apparatus shown, one complete
swing requires about three- quarters of an
hour.
To sum up : The experiment determines
the actual force between two known masses,
at a known distance apart. If we consider
a ten -pound ball lying on the ground we
have a closely similar case. We know the
pull of the earth on the ten -pound ball
obviously ten pounds' weight. We know
the distance between the ball and the attracting center of the earth -four thousand miles. We know the mass of the ball
-ten pounds. With the Cavendish apparatus we start by knowing the distance and
both masses, and then determine the force;
with the ten -pound ball on the ground we
"It is quite generally believed that Mars

has ice -capt poles. The telescope reveals
white spots at the @poles that have every
appearance of being like our ocean Polar
region. They advance toward the equator
in winter and retreat in summer. In the
summer of 1916, Pickering, who, with
Lowell, has led the school of astronomers
who believe the can see canals on Mars,
said that he found the white caps stretching
farther down toward the equator than he
had ever seen them before.
"He said that if there was any connection
between the weather of Mars and that of
the earth the winter of 1916-17 would be
the coldest in many years. It was true.
May it yet be possible to do long-range
weather forecasting on the earth by studying the waxing and waning of the ice -cap
on the South Pole of Mars?
our most graphic picture of the
solar system is given by Herschel. Imagine
a circular field two and a half miles in
diameter; place a library globe two feet in
diameter in the very center ; eighty-two feet
away put a mustard seed. The globe will
represent the sun and the mustard seed
Mercury.
"At a distance of 142 feet place a pea,
and another at 215 feet. These will represent Venus and the earth both as to size
and distance. A rather large pinhead at a
distance of 327 feet will speak for Mars,
and a fair -sized tangerine a quarter of a
mile distant will stand for Jupiter. A small
lemon at two -fifths of a mile will play the
rle of Saturn, a large cherry three -fourths
of a mile distant will answer for Uranus,
and a fair -sized plum at the very edge of
the field will proclaim Neptune.
"Eighty moons would be required to
make one earth. A player there could
throw a ball six times as far as it can be
thrown on American diamonds. A man
weighing 150 pounds there would weich 900
on the earth."
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April,
Eefyiirsxg Cxxi
1920
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THE towboat of
to -day
its
make the most of

mechanical energy.
variety of reasons,
because its screw or
capable of getting a full
does not
store of
It fails for a
but primarily
screws are ingrip upon the
MaTflLrlle TTc'nnspTetm
tn
by EIlec4rnfied
ITc'aIlIleTc's
guidance and, within the limits imposed by

the linking electrical conductor, enjoy considerable freedom of action. With each
charge properly motored and fitted with a
suitable screw for a given maximum speed,
and the power boat similarly equipt for
ELECTRIC POWER ANOCONTROL

PLF>,IYT OR TUG
ELECTRIC MOTORS DRIVING PROPELLERS
ON CAR FLOATS
-In
This Case the Flanking Car Floats are Each Equipt with Twin Screws Electrically Operated, and the Control of the Entire Group is
in the Hands of the Man in the Pilot House of the Central Vessel. By "Going Ahead" On One Barge and "Backing" with the Other, It
Would Be Entirely Feasible to Turn the Whole Tow Within a Small Circle. 2-This Diagram Illustrates One -half of the Propelling Equip1
ment, An Electric Motor, of a Car Float. 3-A Photograph of the "New Era" Preceding the "DAWN" from Which She Obtained Her EnerReel
gizing Current. Nearby is Seen the Pulley Over Which the Electrical Conductor Passes and Immediately Below is Visible a Part of the That
It Will Be Observed
At the Bow of the "DAWN." 4-A Fleet of Electrically Propelled Barges Making Their Way Thru a Canal.Line.
Rear
of
the
the
At
the Prime Mover, the Source of Energy, is a Freight -laden Craft
water when drawing one or more powerless craft. A propeller to be efficient must
actually advance thru the water proportionately to its speed of revolution, and
the force of its drive is dependent upon
the number of times it turns in the course
of a minute. If it revolves rapidly without moving on it churns up the water,
pumps down air, and, to a more or less
pronounced extent, whirls around in a
mixed or agitated medium which is hard
to get hold of effectively.

Now this is pretty much the state of
affairs when a tug heads the line of a
string of barges or canal boats. Should
the convoy be laden, then the tug struggles
with all of its power to make headway,
but the rate of advance is not in keeping
with the speed at which the steamer would
move if free and developing the same
measure of energy. In short, its task is
something akin to a freight locomotive,
attached to a train, trying to mount a gradient on wet tracks, but with this difference -the tug must take the water as it
finds 'it, but the locomotive can "sand the
rails."
But the towboat is further hampered by
the conditions under which it has to work.
For instance, its churning propeller drives
rearward a veritable mill race-directly
against the bows of the oncoming convoy.
As a consequence, this disturbance virtually adds to the load to be drawn by turning the steam vessel's own efforts against
itself. In these days of high prices and

general insistence upon operative efficiency
there is a crying need for something better
than the tug as a handy marine tractor.
Fortunately, a line of improvement has
been pointed out and convincingly demonstrated by Mr. William T. Donnelly of
New York City.
Mr. Donnelly proposes to turn the erstwhile tug into a navigable power station,
generating electricity for its own drive and
for the unit propulsion of its string of
tows. The several vessels that would thus
draw upon the floating central station
would be equipt with electric motors for
driving their respective screws. Making
due allowances for the power losses between the generator and the motors dependent upon it, taking into account wastage
incidental to transmission, et cetera, Mr.
Donnelly has establisht the fact that a given
initial power development can be thus apportioned and yield distinctly superior results in the common speed of a nautical
train, so to speak. Further, the central
station can, with equally good effect, either
head or follow its charges or, if desirable,
the tows can be secured on one or both
sides of the master craft.
To begin with, an arrangement of this
nature reasonably promises to add tremendously to the ease with which a number of boats so energized can thread a
tortuous channel or a busy waterway, for
each unit will be susceptible of independent
efficient operation at towing speeds, the

whole string would be able to maintain
a pace much faster than that possible if
the same propulsive effort were exerted by
a tug, as is now the case.
Mr. Donnelly has planned that his system be adapted to coastwise and ocean
transportation. In the latter case, while
the electric cable would not be expected
to exert a pull, still he is satisfied, by reason of technical developments, that the conductor can be built strong enough to permit it to serve as a tow line in an emergency, involving motor breakdown on any
of the convoy. For this purpose his cable
would be patterned with a copper core
suitably insulated, then wrapt with hemp

and finally armored with steel wire, the
latter giving the needful strength and serving at the same time as a "ground" for
the circuit. For deep -sea work, the object
in making the distributing cable strong
enough to bear a linking stress would be
to hold the various units of the tow together during a storm, thus taking care of
"lame ducks" and enabling the whole fleet
to help one another for the time being.
when heading up into the wind and waves.
As a substitute for river freight -andpassenger steamers and kindred craft plying our Great Lakes and semi-protected
coastal waters upoi. daily schedules, Mr.
Donnelly would have recourse to specially
designed navigable centra stations, capa(Continued on page 1319)
..,
April,
1920
2h3
Ann 0 By PROF.
veo
A.
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TaifA
A 1iR"E
CEM
Professor of Physics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England.

Written Especially for the Electrical Experimenter.
to a distance by means of wires, and, passing thru the electromagnet in the receiver,
alter the amount of the attraction which
the magnet exerts on an, iron diafram,
which is thus set in vibration, and the orig-
inal sounds are reproduced.

Now, it will
that any means by
which we can cause'a current of electricity
to fluctuate in accordance with the vibrations of speech will provide a method of
telephony. And if ,this current can be operated by means of a beam of light projected
from some distance away, it will be possible
to dispense with the wires between sending
and receiving stations. Graham Bell solved
this problem by using the remarkable element called selenium. This substance is,
ordinarily, a bad conductor of electricity,
but if it is illuminated by a beam of light,
its conductivity is increased. Thus if a
thin layer of selenium is connected with an
electric battery and kept in the dark, a
small current flows thru it. If it is now
placed near a bright light, the current is
very much increased. Different colors have
different effects. Red light is more effective than blue, but, generally speaking, the
whole of the constituents of white light
contribute to the increased conductivity. It
is not within the scope of this article to
describe the manufacture of a selenium cell.
Suffice it to say that it has to be prepared
in a thin layer, annealed at a special temperature, and mounted with two terminals
blear
.
Fig.
Shows the Mount of the Vibrating

Mirror On the Phonograph Sound Box. When
the Voice Waves are Spoken Into the Trumpet They Cause the Diafram to Vibrate, and
Also the Small Mirror Attached On An Arm,
Secured to the Center of the Diafram.
3
FORTY years ago ordinary telephony
was a novelty. Today the telephone

is part of the equipment of most
modern houses, and we use it without often thinking of the ingenuity
which resulted in its invention. It comes
as a surprise to find that telephony by
means of light, the Photophone -which is
still a great novelty-was invented almost
as soon as the ordinary telephone. Appropriately enough, the
inventor of b o t h
was one and the
same person -Alexander Graham Bell.
It was in 1880 that
he succeeded in communicating speech,
by means of a beam
of sunlight, over a
distance of about
200 yards. This was
a very remarkable
achievement, and it
is difficult to understand why it has
failed to be developt to any great
Fig. 4. This Shows the Latest Type Light ray Transmitter Arranged for Use with Light
from the Sun.
means of the lens on the selenium cell.

What will happen? Every time the light
gets bright the current in the receiver will
increase. Every time it gets dim, there will
be a reduction of current. Actually, of
course, these fluctuations of light occur far
too rapidly to be visible -perhaps 1,000 per
second. But the selenium is affected by
them, and the variations of light are copied
by the variations of current, and one hears,
as it were, the light speaking. Figure 1
then represents the arrangement of the
receiver in "telephony by light."
We have now to
consider the problem of the transmitter, that is, the
means whereby the
vibrations of speech
can be imprest upon
a beam of light, so
as to make it fluc-
tuate accordingly.
There are two possible methods of

procedure.
On e
may either endeavor
to
make
vibrations
speech
control
the brightness of a
source of light itself, or use the
extent until recentvibrations for the
ly. Various experipurpose of intermenters have workrupting the l i g h t
ed intermittently on
proceeding from a
the subject, with a
steady source. The
view to improving
procedure
Graham Bell's
was adopted by
methods, but the
Graham Bell, and
fact remains that
he describes two
development h a s
been extraordinarily 1- Simple Form of Receiving Circuit for Use In Photophone, Comprising Light- sensitive De- devices in this conslow in comparison vice, Such as a Selenium Cell, Connected in Serles with a Battery and Telephone. 2 -This nection. It is unwith that of tele- Diagram Shows How Rays from Source of Light are Past Thru a Lens and Grid On to a likely that the first
Mirror Mounted On an Arm Attached to a Phonograph Sound -box Diafram at the of these ever
phony over wires. Vibrating
Thru a Second Lens and Grid On Its Way to the Proved successful,
The subject is, how- Right, and How This Beam is ReflectedReceiving
Set.
but it is mentioned
ever, a very fascihere because of its relation to the author's
in and out.
electric
current
nating one, and it is the purpose of this for leading the
article to explain the principles and methods It then goes commonly by the name of a method, which will be described later.
"selenium cell." It acts as a sort of elec- Bell proposed to construct two grids coninvolved.
In ordinary telephony we speak into the tric valve, permitting a big current to pass sisting of parallel strips alternately opaque
transmitter and thereby cause a diafram to when brightly illuminated, and only a small and transparent. One of these grids was
to be fixt, the other attached to a diafram
vibrate in accordance with the vibrations one when in the dark.
Look now at Figure 1. On the right at the end of a trumpet. The grids were
constituting the speech sounds. The diafram in moving to and fro compresses to a hand side are shown a selenium cell, a bat- to be placed parallel to one another, and
varying degree the carbon granules con- tery and a telephone receiver in series. A originally so that the opaque strips of the
tained in the microphone. Comprest car- current is flowing thru the receiver, but one covered up the spaces of the other. A
bon is a better conductor of electricity than it is only when the current fluctuates that beam of light fell upon the grids, and the
carbon loosely packed, and therefore, if we sounds will be heard. Now, later on, we amount of light penetrating the pair would
connect an electric battery to the micro- shall describe how it is possible to make a depend on their relative position. By
phone, we obtain a current of electricity beam of light fluctuate in intensity in ac- speaking into the trumpet the diafram
which fluctuates in magnitude in accord- cordance with the vibrations of speech would be made to vibrate, and, conseance with the vibrations of the diafram. sounds. For the moment let us suppose we quently, the "shutter" formed by the grids
These fluctuations of current are conveyed have such a beam and that we focus it by
latter
1264
Sawing
April,
"Motor"
ilce By
It takes a thief
to catch a thief,
they say, and so it
tric ice sawing machine, which obtains

its current thru a
flexible insulated
cable, running to
an electric power
line near th pond,
the work of putting
60,000 tons of ice in
the ice -house of
the Boston Ice Co.,
has finally come to

pass that the electric current steps in
to really cut ice
with anything like
-or
efficiency,
what
was once a current

of water. In other
words, this is a case
of when current
meets current to
paraphrase the old
Wage "when Greek
meets Greek."
The
twentieth
century way of cutting ice on ponds
and rivers, is to
utilize electric current to operate a
powerful mot o r,
which in turn is
connected thru gearing or directly to
a large saw which
tears thru the ice at
prodigious speed.
With the aid of
this powerful elec-
1920
at Wellesley, Mass.,
was completed this
winter in record breaking time.

The ice
reaches
the machine in
twenty -foot squares
and the four cylinder saws cut them
into the regulation
size cakes.
Besides the electrically driven saws
there are in use
many gasoline engine driven saws for
ice cutting. A Ford
engine makes a good
powerful prime
The 20th Century Way of Cutting Ice on Ponds and Rivers, Is to Utilize Electric Current as mover
Shown Herewith. The Current Is Transmitted to the Motor Within the Saw Machinery, Thru
Flexible Rubber - Covered Cable Running to the Shore. Gasoline Driven Saws Are Also Used. saw.
ThIlet 1FIlre
NOW that everything in the line of
safety apparatus and fire announcers
has been invented, a New York
genius, a fireman, to be more specific, has

perfected and patented a device which not
only gives instant alarm in case of fire,
but also notifies its precise and exact location, making the announcement when the
heat in a room reaches about 130 degrees
Fahrenheit, which is considerably lower
than the temperature at which the sprinkler
system would operate. In this way, announcement of the fire is made long before the automatic sprinklers flood the
apartment or building with water, thus
ruining by water a lot df material which
limrma.
667
could have been saved if the sprinkler

had been promptly shut off. Knowing the
difficulties and the faults of the methods
used to -day, the inventor has developed
mechanisms which are actuated by weights
in which electric current plays but a very
small part, and as long as gravity exists
the mechanism is absolute and positive in
its action.
Fuse links are another feature of this
invention. These join together lengths of
cord or very thin wire. This
taut wire running thru a series
of pulleys finally terminates in
the fireproof box containing the
phonograph apparatus. A weight
l
mmim,,,,m,,,
m,,trummu,,,mummi,
"Hello, Operator!
There Is a Fire at
188 Blank Street, In
the Warehouse on
the Second Floor,
Front. Notify Fire

at
Headquarters
York 1,000. Central,
there Is
.
Etc." Thls Is a
Fire Alarm Call
SPOKEN Over the
Telephone by This
Latest Fire Alarm
Device. Diagram at
Right Shows Fusible Links "L" Inserted in Taut Cord
Which
Releases
Phonograph,
As
Soon As the Links
Are Melted.
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Diagram at Left
Electric
Thermostats Which
May Be Placed on
the Ceiling About
10 Feet Apart, and
Electric Relay or
Tripping Device for
PhonoStarting
graph in Case of
Fire.
When the
Fusible Link Just
Above the Cabinet
Melts, the Phonograph Is Shut Off,
and the Telephone
Hook Is Restored
to Normal Condition.
Shows
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MI
for such a
Rsfl,
is suspended to the
cord which is also connected directly to the lever starting the

phonographic mechanism. Another cord
runs up thru the box and has another fuse
link inserted in it, the latter outside of the
box as illustrated. The cord now passes
thru the box again and is connected to the
Bell telephone receiver hook.
When a fire breaks out in any particular portion of the building, one of the fuses
April,
1920
A u .eOlumO :bile He
ELECTRIC STEERING
WHEEL HEATER.
,
NEW
1265
AUTOMOTIVE
AMMETERS.
This newest electric winTwo new ammeters for

ter driving comfort consists
automobiles, motor boats,
of two neat leather covered
airplanes and other auto grips, one for each hand,
motives have recently been
which lace on to the steeradded to a well -known line
ing wheel at any place conof instruments.
venient for driving. SpeThe type of ammeter
cial resistance wires are
shown is an inexpensive incleverly arranged between
strument, but is rugged, retwo copper plates in such
liable and amply accurate
a way that a very small
for the service for which
current is sufficient to keep
it is intended. It operates
the grips warm. They operon the polarized -vane prinate on the same principle as
ciple, without springs or
an electric heating pad.
moving coils, is dead beat
After a certain heat is oband can withstand momentained the heaters will get
tary overloads of 500 amno hotter, but retain an
peres without injury.
even temperature. They are
The dial is two inches in
simple, neat and efficient.
diameter, and the scale
type
designed
specially
A
which indicates amperages
This Is the "Ford" of Europe in the Central Sections. The Power Plant Is
for the Ford car is heated Entirely Mounted on the Front Above the Wheel. Photo -Edna Purdy. of from 15 to 30, charge
from
the
magby electricity
and discharge, is an inch
neto.
and a half long. Either black dials with
NEW
MAGNETO
FOR
FORDSON
steerSafety demands a firm grip of the
white figures and needles, or white dials
ing wheel which you cannot get with cold
with black figures and needles can be supTRACTOR.
fingers. The new device keeps your fingers
plied. The meter is arranged for flush
limber, with only a pair of light gauntlets
One of the neatest and most effective mounting in the dash or cowl.
on, which enables you to grip the wheel
The second type of ammeter was origieasy- starting ignition appliances yet protight on the coldest winter days, giving you duced for the Fordson is the new model nally designed for government radio serva safe feeling even while driving over pave- magneto fitted with an impulse starter
ments slippery with ice.
coupling. One slow turn of the crank of
the engine gives ignition results ordinarily
had at 500 revolutions per minute, due to
the impulse starter giving a quick spin to
the magneto rotor shaft. The new outfit is
chain driven from the front end of the
crankshaft, the unit being located on the
left side of the engine, where it is away
from exhaust heat, a most important advantage when the destructive effect of the
heat is considered. The heat quickly destroys distributor blocks and reduces the
magnetic life of the magnets. In this magneto all this has been eliminated. All that
is needed for installation is a wrench. No
holes need be drilled, or any parts removed or discarded. As shown in the accompanying illustration, the magneto rests
Electrically Heated Steering Wheel for
Autos.
The heater coils use only half the current

necessary for electric headlights. They are
operated from the same storage battery or
magneto that supplies the headlights and
are easy to attach. They can be put on in
ten minutes. There are no bolts or screws,
or holes to bore; lace on -wire up-that's
Latest Type of Auto Ammeter. White or

Black Dials Are Available on These Meters.
ice, and is the smallest d'Arsonval instrument made. Tho but two inches in body
all.
AUTO PARKING LIGHT.

In order to save current while automobiles are standing idle on the streets, an
enterprising concern has developed this
auto parking light. This lamp is attached
to the rear fender and takes the place of
the regular head and tail lamps when the
car is not being operated. The 2-candlepower bulb is said to consume only about
a quarter of the current the regular lamps
use. A 21/2-inch white semaphore lens is
furnished in front of the lamp and a red
semaphore lens in the rear. An "off" and
"on" switch is installed on the lamp itself.
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A Small Current - Saving
Electric Parking Light for

Autos. Lamp
Is Attached to
Rear Fender.
Flashes White
A h e a d a n d
Red to Rear.
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Showing New Magneto for Fordson Tractor

nstalled on Engine. It Has an Impulse
StArter, Giving Full Spark on One Revolution.
on a support which itself is braced by

brackets attached to the crankcase. The
instrument is driven by a short shaft at
one end of which is an adjustable coupling
and at the other two bronze bearings
mounted on either side of a 16 -tooth
sprocket. This sprocket is driven by a
silent chain from another sprocket at the
forward end of the camshaft. The silent
chain is protected by a guard which is provided with an oil hole so that the chain may
be given an occasional oiling. The chain
is easily adjusted.
diameter, this instrument possesses all of

the delicacy of action, high sensibility,
great accuracy and ruggedness of the standard switch -board type. It is supplied for
flush as well as projection mounting. Voltmeters with scales ranging from 3 volts upward are also supplied in this style of instrument.
Many electrical instruments can be furnished, when desired, with black dials, the
figures, scale, and pointer being white.
The comparative illumination on black and
white dial instruments is vividly shown by
the acompanying illustration, which shows
a white and black dial instrument mounted
side by side on a switchboard and illuminated by the same lamp.
Illumination on Black
White -Dial Instruments
Comparative
and
1266
PopuLZT
April, 1920
/-1.01TORIOREIY
By RSA EL M L EW1.1 5 M. A
a
Of Ib, J. S. Nazal Observatory
bsezevnng
TO appreciate the beauties of a star()

light night get as far away from the
heart of the city as possible. No obobservations of the heavenscan be
made thru slit -like openings between
rows of houses with. the glare of street
lights in one's face and the smoke, dust and
haze of a busy city enveloping one on all
sides. Even such celestial jewels as Sirius,
Vega and Spica shine with a pale and sickly
light for the city dwellers.
Get out in the open if you want to become acquainted with the stars and choose,
moreover, a clear, moonless night, for
bright moonlight blots out fully half of the
stars that would otherwise be visible to the
naked eye.
A good test of the "seeing" is the visibility of the Milky Way. If you always
view the heavens from the outskirts of a
great city the Milky Way really means nothing to you, but if you have the good fortune
to be aboard ship .on a clear, dark, moonless night or on the western prairies or near
the summit of a mountain or at some farm
or country home far removed from the
city you will not fail to see at some hour
of the night a portion of this magnificent
girdle of the heavens, the groundwork of
the universe, where suns are piled upon
suns in riotous profusion and where the
misty light of the luminous nebulae leads
into the dark caves, rifts and lanes produced by the non -luminous nebulae, the
whole giving us the impression of an elaborate and intricate structure that reveals Mars: Region of Syrtis Major. Photos Taken
the workings of a Master -mind and over- at Yerkes, September 28, 1909, Showing
whelms us with feelings of awe.
Changes Due to Rotation. Exposure 3 to 4
In attempting to explore the wonders of
Seconds.
the heavens with an opera-glass some amateurs have complained that they could not
Some have complained also of the "dancfind Jupiter's four moons. This may be due ing"
the stars when viewed thru a spytither to poor observing conditions, as men- glass of
or small telescope of greater power
tioned above, or to the use of a poor glass than an
ordinary field glass. It is useless
or to failure to recognize these minute
attempt to use any instrument more powpoints of light when visible. All four to
than a field glass or opera glass withmoons will probably not be visible at once, erful
out a tripod or rigid mounting of some
as one or more of the moons will usually be
form.
in transit across the planet or occulted beThe more powerful the telescope the
hind the planet or eclipsed by its shadow. more
carefully it must be mounted.
Continued observing from night to night
will reveal the fact that these little bodies areBuildings for housing powerful telescopes
built, if possible, far away from streetare actually revolving around the plant.
lines and railroads for the trembling
With a telescope that was in some re- car
of
the
ground caused by the passage of
to
inferior
a
modern
field
glass
spects
Gali- trains and
cars affects the instruments.
leo determined the periods of revolution of
Telescopes of four inches or more in aperall four satellites within a few nights of
ture are of little value unless mounted on
their discovery.
a stone or cement pier and housed in such
a way as to be entirely free of the floor, as
even walking across the floor would otherwise cause the instruments to tremble. Temperature and atmospheric effects must also
be considered, and to equalize the inside
and outside temperature and overcome the
"boiling" of the atmosphere due to unequal
temperature the astronomer throws open
the dome of the observing room for some
time before he expects to begin his observations.
At most large observatories "visitors'
nights" are a regular feature. Visitors to
Mt. Wilson Observatory observe the great
100-inch reflector from a glass encased observing room that they may introduce no
'temperature effects upon the sensitiveness
of this powerful instrument.
There are certain celestial objects that
nearly every one desires to see thru a telescope.
We all want to see the Moon and Saturn's rings and some of our near neighbors
An Interesting Telescopic View of the Planet
in the solas system, as well as some of the
Neptune with Its Moon. The Little White
Spot Near the Large One Is Neptune's Moon.
most interesting objects that lie many light
An Unusual Photograph, as the Little Satelyears away, the great nebulae and the
lite Is a Very Difficult Object to View, Even
globular star clusters and the double stars.?
Thru a Large Telescope.
Heavenly Bodges
The best general view of the moon, as

many are aware, is obtained a few days
after the first quarter, but the best time to
study any particular marking is when it lies
near the terminator, the line separating the
light from the dark portion of the moon's
surface. The marking, crater or mountain
or cleft, as the case may be, is then illuminated by a low sun and casts a long shadow,
which indicates the height and form of the
object. Lunar objects that stand forth beautifully when the sun is rising or setting
upon them sometimes entirely disappear
from view under a high sun. The poorest
of all times to observe the moon is at the
time of full moon, when there are no shadows and all detail of the lunar markings is
lost in a flood of sunlight under vertical
illumination.
The most interesting views of the moon
from a popular point of view are those obtained with a six- or eight -inch telescope
showing the entire lunar disk in the field
of view.
Highly magnified views taken with the
great reflectors and refractors show the
moon to us piece -meal, for, as the magnification increases, the angular width of
the field decreases, and instead of a view of
the entire lunar disk we get a "close -up"
of a very limited portion of the surface
showing great detail.
Venus in the telescope is a surprisingly
beautiful little ob ect if seen near its time
of greatest brilliancy, halfway between inferior conjunction and elongation, when
it appears as an exquisite little crescent
moon. With a magnifying power of forty five Venus appears exactly as the moon
does to the unaided eye when it is four
days old, tho, of course, it shows no distinctive markings such as appear on the
lunar surface, for the surface of Venus is
screened from our view by its dense atmosphere.
Astronomers prefer to make their observations of Venus and Mercury in the
daytime, for they are then higher in the
sky and the observations are not marred by
the disturbing atmospheric effects of refraction, haze and "boiling" that are
always greatest near the horizon.
Saturn is one celestial object that hardly
ever disappoints us. His rings are a source
of never - failing interest to everyone. To
he sure, they disappear from view for a
very brief period once every fifteen or
seventeen years, when our line of vision
Remarkable Photograph of Saturn, Taken

November 17, 1911, with the Sixty Inch
Telescope of the Mt. Wilson Observatory.%
This Shows It as It Appears in a Powerful
Reflecting Telescope.
lies directly in their plane, but such disappearances are comparatively rare and,
even at such times, we cannot fail to be in-
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1920
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At
Left-Great.
Photographic Nebula Near Pi and
Delta Scorpii.
by
Photographed
Mr. Barnard with
the
Bruce Telescope. Exposure 8
Hours and 45 Minutes.
One of the
Most
Beautiful
Sights in the
Heavens.
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At Right
Encke's
Comet, Taken at
the Yerkes Observatory, October 29,
Note the
Lengths of
the Star Trails,
1914.
Great
Indicate
Which
Motion of
Rapid
the Comet. This
Comet Is Noted for
Having the Shortest Period of All

Known Periodic
Comets, Three and
Three
Years.
Brightest,
Faint
Tenths
At Its
It
Is a
Telescopic
Object, Showing no
Trail.
the coarser globular clusters are wonderful

objects in the larger telescopes. With small
three -inch telescopes it is difficult to make
out the stellar nature of even the coarsest
of the star clusters.
Double and multiple star -systems can
always be found even with as modest an
instrument as an opera glass, for these
systems abound in the heavens. At a conservative estimate at least one out of every
four stars belongs to a physically connected
system composed of two or more stars revolving around a common center of gravity.
One of the tests of the power of a
telescope is its ability to separate
close double stars. A six -inch telescope will separate a double star into
its two components that appears as
a single star in a three- or four -inch
telescope, while it will in turn show
as a single star a close double that
can be separated by a telescope of
greater aperture.
Some double stars are so close that
no existing telescope is powerful
enough to separate them, tho the
shifting of spectral lines will reveal
that a companion star is present.
Such double star systems are called
spectroscopic binaries.
The wider doubles are frequently
of beautifully contrasting colors, such
as green and red or blue and gold.
Many of these gems are visible in
the smallest telescopes and they are
among the wonders of -the heavens
that every one will want to see.
Often the faint companion of a
brilliant star will be invisible in small
telescopes because of the glare of
light from its bright companion.
Such is the case with the companions
of Rigel and Antares.
Close satellites of the planets
Jupiter, Saturn and Mars are also
difficult to find, not only because
they are small, but because they must,
always be so close to the planet that
they are dimmed by its light. For
the same reason our terrestrial
planets are invisible at the distance
of the outer planets.
(Morehouse
All
of
Comets
One of the Most. Interesting
Comets are not interesting objects
Comet) Because of the Sudden and Unexplainable
to view telescopically, as they are
Changes in Form and Brightness That Were Conextremely faint. No extended sur -;
tinually Taking Place. The Telescope Was Kept
Pointed on the Comet While the Photograph Was
face, such as the disk of a planet or
Being Taken, Which Caused the Star Images to Trail
a comet can appear brighter teleAcross the Plate. Taken at the Yerkes Observatory,
scopically than it does to the naked
October 15, 1908.
terested in his belts and his moons and the

pronounced flattening at the poles, which
Is then particularly noticeable.
Jupiter also delights us all with his constantly changing belts and varied coloring,
and the phenomena of his four historic
moons that show up so beautifully even in
the small telescopes.
Mars in the telescope is usually a disappointment to every one, and the astronomer
never presents him as a show object irs
fact, he prefers not to show him at all
sinless you are prepared beforehand. The
Martian disk is small, for Mars is
a tiny world after all. Its surface
is less than a third that of the earth,
it must be remembered. To glimpse
the Martian canals one needs a
trained eye and the skill in observing that only comes after long continued practise, as well as exceptionally fine atmospheric conditions,
such as are not usually to be found
on visitors' nights at the observatories of our large cities.
It must be remembered that the
maps of the Martian canals that
most of us have seen are the results
of years of painstaking observations
made under superlatively fine observing conditions, and that only a small
proportion of the total number of
canals have been seen at any one
time. A canal may flash forth during a moment of exceptional seeing
and then be dimmed by Martian
mists or terrestrial haze. Even the
chance observer will note the snow
caps, however, and the most conspicuous surface markings.
The outer planets, Uranus and
Neptune, are so far away that they
are of little interest even in the large
;
telescopes.
In delving into space beyond the
solar system, of greatest interest to
all are the star clusters and nebulae
and the double and multiple star
systems, as well as the many wonderful regions of the Milky Way.
Aside from the Great Nebula in
Orion, which is, indeed, a wonderful object in the telescope, the nebulae are. on the whole, disappointing
when observed directly. Here is one
instance in which the photographic
plate, on account of the cumulative
effect of light, is vastly superior to
the human eye. All the wonderful detail

brought out in the photographs of the
nebulae and star- clusters is the result of
several hours of photographic exposure.
The Great Spiral Nebula in Andromeda,
the Trfid Nebula and many of the wonderful double armed spirals with which we are
familiar thru their photographs show up
quite disappointingly in the telescope because they appear so extremely faint to the
human eye.
Star clusters, as well as nebulae, appear
at their best photographically. A few of
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1920
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At Left
The Bruce
Telescope of the
Yerkes
Observatory,
Showing the Thre0
Objectives by Means
of Which
Different
Sized Photographs of
the Same Regions May
Be Photographed Simultaneously. Magnificent Photographs of
the "Milky Way" Were
Taken by Mr. Barnard
with This Instrument,
Temporarily
Located
on Mount Wilson, Cal.
The Plate Holders Are
Placed at the Eye -End
of the Telescope.
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At Right-A Universe
of Suns: The Great

Star Cluster in Hercules (Messier 13). Distance from the Earth
Estimated To Be 37,000
Light Years. Photographed with the Sixty -foot Reflector of the
Mt. Wilson Observatory.
Exposure
11
Hours. This Is Visible
to the Naked Eye as a
Faint, Hazy Patch of
Light. In a Three Inch Telescope,
Its
Stellar
Hardly
Nature Can
Be
Distin-
guished.
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eye, for altho the increase in light is proportional to the square of the diameter of
the lens, the magnification of the object by
the eyepiece spreads this light over a greater
surface and the total amount of light received by the eye is less than when the object is gazed at directly.
The total amount of light received from
the stars, however, is greatly increased as
the diameter of the lens increases, because
they appear as points of light. The bright
stars can be seen in the daytime in the telescope and millions upon millions of stars
invisible to the naked eye can be seen in the

telescope. Many more millions that cannot be seen by the eye, even with telescopic
aid, can be brought out by the cumulative
action of light upon the photographic
plate.
Photography is of little value in studying in detail surface markings of the planets on account of the rotation of the planets on their axes, which makes long photographic exposures impracticable.
The Martian canals have lately been photographed at the Lowell Observatory, and
Dr. Slipher's wonderful photographs of
Jupiter give unsurpassed general views of
the Jovian markings, but all the more delicate changes in tint and shade of the markings of Jupiter, Saturn and Mars and, in
fact, of the lunar markings as well, can
be caught only by the human eye, which
Ilp
excels the photographic plate in catching

fleeting glimpses of fine detail and in utilizing the rare instants of perfect seeing which
occur from time to time in all localities.
Photography is far more valuable for
cometary work than in delineating planetary features.
In spite of the fact that a comet is moving rapidly thru the solar system, valuable
photographic exposures of even several
hours' duration can be obtained by stopping
the clockwork of the telescope, which keeps
the stars immovable in the field, and allowing the stars to trail across the field while
an observer keeps the telescope pointed on
the comet thruout the time of exposure by
means of the cross- wiresin the finder of
the telescope or by some similar means.
Wonderful photographs of comets have
been obtained by such methods and these
are of great scientific value in that they
afford indisputable evidence of the changes
in the form and general appearance of a
comet that often take place with startling
suddenness.
The speed with which the comet is moving can be judged from the length of the
star trails produced during the exposure.
Photographs of comets are of great value
to any one interested in researches into the
causes of the remarkable and unaccountable
changes in the behavior of comets that are
continually occurring.
-
One of the most interesting of all comets

was Comet Morehouse (1908), which, tho
never bright, exhibited some very striking
phenomena. Its brightness changed from
time to time in a most erratic manner, and
the material that formed the tail at times
appeared to be swept aside by unseen forces
or driven from the head with unaccountable

rapidity. It may be considered one of the
most mysterious comets that has ever appeared. Many excellent photographs of this
comet were taken which prove the peculiarity of its behavior.
Of special interest this spring will be the
apposition of Mars, which will occur on
April 21. Mars' nearest approach to the
earth will take place a few days later, on
April 27, when it will be about fifty -four
million miles from the earth. In 1922 and
1924 the distance will be even less.
Any one may find the ruddy -hued planet
at that time very readily, as it will be the
brightest red star in view in the evening.
At the time of apposition Mars will be
almost as bright as Sirius, the brightest star
in the sky, which will disappear below the
western horizon very. early in the evening
by the last of April. At the same time
Mars will appear in the eastern sky shortly
after sunset and will be on the meridian at
midnight. Jupiter will also be seen just
west of the meridian at sunset and will not
set until after midnight.
Trneaa RO helrfr0lrafl On The PrObEelms

OT RadIlOacavIlay
In the first Silvanus Thompson Memorial

Lecture, delivered before the Rntgen Society Sir Ernest Rutherford, F. R. S., reviewed the various lines of scientific investigation opened up as a result of the discovery of X -rays. Iii a tribute to the first
president of the society, in whose honor the
lectureship was instituted, he mentioned
that on the morning that the late Silvanus
Thompson read of Rntgen's discovery he
set to work, and by nightfall had succeeded
in producing what was probably the first
X -ray photograph taken in England. The
outbreak of war, Professor Rutherford
said, had caused an almost complete stoppage in the great tide of advance in pure
cience, but the lull afforded a suitable op-
portunity for looking back with some degree of perspective over the ground covered
during the last twenty years.
Undoubtedly the discovery of this new

type of radiation marked the beginning of
an epoch in physical science and had
brought about a revolution in ideas of the
nature of matter and electricity almost as
marked as that produced in biology by the
theory of evolution. The two decades from
1895 to 1915 had been a period of pioneer
advance over a new and fertile territory,
with the almost daily discovery of interesting facts and the gradual unfolding of
fundamental ideas. The directions of advance which had been stimulated by the
discovery of X -rays included investigation
on the ionization of gases, electrons, the

diffraction of X -rays by crystals, and, most
important of all, the phenomena of radioactivity, which was an even more direct
consequence of the discovery of X -rays
than the work on the electron. The sequence of changes in uranium, thorium, and
actinium had now been followed out, not,
indeed completely, but in the main part. No
doubt there would still be in the future
considerable developments as the result of
investigations of the multiple transformations of the atom, but as a whole, apart

from a few outstanding difficulties, like the
origin of actinium, the transformation of
radioactive bodies was fairly well understood.
1269
1920
April,
99
66
(CONTINUED FROM THE MARCH NUMBER)
HONORABLE MENTION.
SECOND HONORABLE MENTION.
THIRD
I wish to say that the peculiar effect reproduced on the sample piece of film pub lisht in the December issue of the ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER was probably caused
by the distorted curve of the primary alternating current which was probably operating at commercial frequency.
A distorted curve is considered as a re-
The effect obtained in making motion

pictures of the rabbit undergoing the
corona discharge from a high frequency
apparatus is due to the fact that the exposures are made without reference to the
intermittent appearance and disappearance
of the corona discharge.
In a high frequency set the secondary
voltage and current rises to maximum and
drops to zero value in a rapidly succeeding train of high frequency waves for each
discharge of the primary spark gap. That
is, the frequency may be 200,000 cycles per
second, but these wave trains are split into
groups with a wave envelope of a shape
determined by the frequency of sparking
and the damping in the circuits.
A motion picture camera operating at a
rate of sixteen exposures per second with
each exposure lasting, say, .01 second, will
snap the corona in the different stages of
its changing values. The first five exposures on the length of film were made
when the corona was at a value below its
maximum, the sixth exposure occurring at
the exact instant it had reached its maximum value in one of its recurring cycles.
Were the rate of exposure and spark discharge kept at the same rate a perfect picture would be obtained at regular inter-
.
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Diagram to Accompany Mr. Coffman's Ex

planation of the "Mysterious Rabbit."
sultant of a sine curve of the same frequency as the distorted curve, combined
with a number of other sine curves of a
higher frequency. The shape of the resultant curve depends on the features of
design of the circuit. The sine wave of
the same frequency as the distorted wave
is called the fundamental wave, and the
higher frequency components are called
harmonics. Practically the resultant of
the fundamental and a limited number of
harmonics will represent any distorted
wave with sufficient accuracy.
The actual shape of curves is determined by means of an oscillograph or by
some other method. In practice the problem is usually that of splitting up a given
distorted curve into the fundamental and
harmonics, and the ability to distinguish
at a glance the presence of prominent harmonics in any distorted curve can be attained only by practice in drawing different
fundamental waves and harmonics and adding these algebraically. In making such
drawings the maximum value of the harmonics should be taken at less than the
maximum value of the fundamental.
By referring to the photo of the film,
we may draw a resultant curve which will
be distorted as can be seen. The resultant
curve is shown in the illustration. By beginning at the top of the film and going
down it can be seen that the power of the
primary inducing current gradually increased, and then suddenly flasht up to
maximum power when view six was taken.
The numerals in the accompanying illustratibn represent the time at which the respective views were taken. By analyzation
of the resultant curves, it is proven that
it consists of the fundamental wave b
and the second and fourth harmonics c
and d, respectively.
Altho the current in the high frequency
secondary circuit was oscillating at an extremely high frequency, compared with
that in the primary circuit, the power of
the same at any instant was dependant
upon the power of the current in the primary at that instant.
RAYMOND NOBLE COFFMAN.
105
Burt Ave.,
Newark, Ohio.
vals.
THOS. W. BENSON.
3722 M St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
FOURTH HONORABLE MENTION.

To explain this strange phenomenon, it
is assumed that the spark-discharge used
was of a highly dampt order, also the speed
of the camera at the time happened to be

running at a speed, synchronous to one of
the many harmonics of a wavelength developt by the frequency of the spark discharge.
If this be true, then each picture, beginning at the top would not necessarily be
taken of the next wave of the train, but
the next in their order of the harmonic.
It must be understood that the harmonic
is moving constantly with the frequency
of the wavelength developt by the spark
discharge.
In this case the camera shutter opens
only when the harmonic is in evidence that
is, there is no picture taken except when
the harmonic covers some one point of the
discharge wave-train.
To illustrate this, the full lines in the
drawing show the oscillations of only one
spark discharge, and the broken lines show
the harmonic position relative to the opening of the camera shutter on a spark discharge, that is, the first picture in the illustration would be taken when the harmonic was in a position as shown at C
in the drawing, the second taken when the
harmonic again crost a wave-train or at
a point D, the third at a point E, the fourth
at a point F, the fifth at a point G, the
sixth picture would be taken from the first
rush of current in discharging or at a point
A, the seventh and eighth would be taken
at a point G also or even later if the timelength of the wave -train was greater.
I have made many photographs of spark
discharges, sometimes obtaining no picture
at all, and never any two of the same
strength or density.
By using a speed camera with a shutter
speed of One, three or four hundredths of
;
a second, pictures of this nature are easily

obtained.
The movie camera gives the same effect,
except that there are sixteen pictures per
second in the standard machine, therefore
the camera must have been running at a
speed synchronous to a harmonic wavelength developt when the discharge took
place.
HAROLD C. SIMONS,
Elec. (R. O.) U. S. N.,

Frankford, Mich.
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Harmonics Enter Into the Solution of the

"Rabbit Puzzle" by Mr. Simons.
FIFTH
HONORABLE
MENTION.
As everyone knows who is familiar with

alternating current on open circuit (such
as the poles and secondary windings of an
high frequency induction coil constitute)
the poles are electrified alternately with
charges of positive and negative sign, one

pole being positive while the other is negative. With a frequency of two hundred
thousand the change in sign of the charge
of either pole occurs so rapidly that the
discharge seems to the unaided eye to be
continuous.
The fact of the matter is that the discharge is not continuous, but approaches a
maximum as the pole under observation is
charged with electricity of one sign at its
highest potential dies down and disappears with the lowering of this potential,
only to reappear when the pole is almost
immediately charged with electricity of the
opposite sign at a rising potential.
Thus it will be seen that if a camera
with a fast working speed were trained
upon the rabbit (in this case constituting
part of one pole of the machine) and the
film exposed at the time that the electric
charge was changing signs (that is, when
there is no discharge), the film when developt would be blank, while if exposed
at the time of maximum discharge the result would be as shown in picture number
six.
As the moving picture camera has a
"frequency" of approximately sixteen, and
the electrical discharge a frequency of two
hundred thousand, the exposures would be
made at times of different degrees of discharge.
Thus exposure number one was made
when the discharge was approaching a
minimum. Number two was made as the
potential of the charge was still lower
than the potential of the charge photographed in number one ; numbers three
and four are photographs of receding
potential, while in number five the exposures of the camera and the frequency
of the electrical machine again commence
to be in synchronism, and the result is
that the sixth exposure was made just as
the discharge was at its maximum brilliancy, while numbers seven and eight
again were made at times of discharge of
lower potential.
FRANK L. HEYDON.
Ponca, Neb.
;
1270
ZEDECeZIA-: C]h e
April,
1920
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By iPRF0 FLOMDD
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Left
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DARROW
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Making
Phosphine Rings Is
Extremely Interesting "Chemical Stunt," Which

Wilt Please All
an
Those Who Have

Even a Small Laboratory. The Gas
Rings Arise in the
Form of Beautiful
Concentric Circles.
Right- Generation
of Water Gas Is
Here Readily Demonstrated, the Gas
Being Collected by
Downward Water
Displacement. Note
Bunsen B u r n e r
Quartet. The Set Up of the Apparatus
Is
Clearly
Depicted in Diagram, Figure 11.
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FLAMES AND ILLUMINANTS.
'-IE object of experimentation in the

home laboratory should not be
amusement, merely. If that were

the sole purpose, it would not be
worth the time and effort required.
But the skill in manipulation, the knowledge
of chemistry, the training in observation
and the interest in scientific work acquired
in such practice are of inestimable value.
It is well to remember, too, that a century
and a half ago when chemistry was in its
infancy most of the great chemical discoveries were made in home laboratories.
Therefore, in all the work make it the best
possible, be sure you understand the chemistry back of it and seek at every point to
gain increased skill in manipulation.
In this article we shall consider the
chemistry of flames and illuminants
most
important field of chemical investigation.
Perhaps, we had better start off with the
fact that to produce a flame requires the
union of tv o gases or vapors. Red hot
coals glow but there is no flame. Likewise
the burning of iron in oxygen or the union
of sulfur and zinc dust produces light but
no flame.
IGNITION OF GAS FROM AN EXTINGUISHED

CANDLE.
Light a candle and when it is burning
well blow out the flame. Immediately hold

a lighted match in the rising smoke a half
inch above the wick, when the vapor will
catch fire and running back will communicate the flame to the wick.
To show this on a larger scale arrange
a candle and Argand lamp chimney as
shown in figure 1 allowing for good ventilation. On blowing out the flame and ap-
downward and thrust upward into it a

lighted candle attached to a wire. The
hydrogen lights at the mouth of the cylinder with a small explosion, burning with
an almost colorless flame, but the candle
immediately goes out. Upon withdrawing
the candle it is relighted at the mouth,
showing that the hydrogen itself is burning. The operation may be repeated a
number of times before the gas is exhausted. This shows clearly that while the
hydrogen is combustible it does not support combustion. This is also true of
many other gases.
BURNING AIR.
That either illuminating gas or air may

be regarded as the supporter of combustion
is shown by the following experiment
Fit a lamp chimney with a 2 -holed rubber stopper carrying a glass elbow and a
straight glass tube as shown in figure 3.
-a
The straight tube should be about 10 millimeters in diameter. On the top of the
chimney place a piece of asbestos board
with a small hole in the center. Now con-
nect the glass elbow with the gas supply

and closing the hole in the asbestos board
with the palm of the hand turn on the
Here Is Something New to Try on the Gas

Company. Instead of Burning Gas in Air
Do Both; Burn Air in Gas and Gas in
Air
Simultaneously, Thus Obtaining Two Lights
at the Cost of One. The
Trick Lies in the
Lighting and Piping Arrangements
of the
Apparatus.
plying the lighted match to the top of

the chimney, the candle will be relighted.
The chimney may be 3 or 4 inches in
height.
TO ILLUSTRATE THE TERM "SUPPORTER
OF COMBUSTION."
A gas may be combustible and yet not a
An Extremely Simple Acetylene Gas Lamp

Whereby the Amateur Chemist Can Work at
Night. The Light Emitted Is Very Constant
and the Lamp May Be Turned Off by Simply
Tightening the Pinch -Cock. The Embryo
Chemist Is Here Seen Carrying on an Analysis Experiment by the Acetylene Lamp.
supporter of combustion. This is well illustrated with hydrogen. Generate a cylinder of the gas in the usual way by the
action of dilute sulfuric on zinc and collect
the gas over water.
Now as shown in figure 2 hold the cylinder of hydrogen in the left hand, mouth
The Gas Flame Above Shown Coming Front

the Bottle Is Due to the Fact That Gas Had
Been Introduced Primarily and Later Shut
Off. Air Mixes With the Gas in the Bottle
Until Finally the Mixture Therein Contained
Is of a Sufficient Explosive Context to Go Off
With a Loud Report.
April,
of an cxplosir, mixture of gas and air.

when the feeble flame strikes down into the
mixture and ignites it. The "striking back
of a gas stove or Bunsen burner is due to
the same cause.
Smoie /romain.
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gniles !mm mkn
ana figes condie
f/ame
ASbeS/os
Goy
i-
lLir Burning in
almosphere of
i//uminalingns
THE SAFETY LAMP.
agoni
fg. s
1271
1920
fig. 2
le
the Gas From an Extinguished

Candle, Thus Lighting the Candle Again.
Igniting
Above. Diagram Showing That Even Those

Gases Which Burn Can Ac: as Supporters of
Combustion in Which Case They Need Not
Burn.
Then light the gas at the lower end

of the straight tube, immediately remove
your hand from the cardboard and also
light the gas at the top of the chimney.
Two flames will result, one at the top of
the chimney, which is the excess of gas
burning in air and the other at the top of
the straight tube, which is air burning in an
atmosphere of illuminating gas. Thus air
is the combustible gas here and the illuminating gas is the supporter of combustion.
gas.
AN EXPLOSIVE MIXTURE.
Multiply the above explosion a million

times and you will have something like the
effect produced by an explosion of "fire
damp" in a coal mine. It will show you,
too, the necessity for the miner's safety
lamp invented by Sir Humphrey Davy a
century ago.
The principle of this lamp is well shown
by surrounding a candle with a cylinder of
fine iron or copper gauze. Cut a sheet of
gauze 6 by 8 inches and roll it into a cylinder and fasten it along 'the edges. At
the bottom place a candle, securing it in
position with wire supports.
Light the candle and hold the cylinder
horizontally in jet of illuminating gas as
shown in figure 5. The gas will be seen
to burn inside the cylinder but the flame
will not communicate outside and the burner
will not light. This gauze may even become red hot without igniting the gas on
the outside. So good a conductor of heat
is the gauze that the gas does not reach
its kindling temperature. A simple application of a physical principle, and yet it has
saved thousands of lives.
Gas
Ugh/
it
lirsf
fig.3
/i0.4
Burning Air in an Atmosphere of Illuminating Gas. Two Lights are Noticed, One a..
the Top of the Cylinder Burning in Air, the
Other Inside the Cylinder Burning in an
Atmosphere of Gas.
The Layout for the Explosive Mixture Experiment. The Gas Supply Pipe and Cork
Is Removed; the Flame, However, Still Continues to Burn. Why?
The platinized asbestos may be prepared

by moistening a small quantity of asbestos
fibers with a few drops of platinum chlorid
solution and igniting them in a Bunsen
burner flame. The chlorid decomposes and

finally divided platinum is left on the fibers.
PHOSPHINE SMOKE RINGS.
Arrange apparatus as shown in Figure

7. Fit a flask with a 2-holed stopper carrying two bent tubes, one of which reache;
A BUNSEN BURNER FLAME.
With the air holes open at the bottom of

the tube a Bunsen burner flame shows two
distinct cones -an outer cone of burning
nearly to the bottom of the flask. In the

flask place a strong
solution of sodium or
hydroxid
potassium
and a piece of yellow
phosphorous, the size
of a pea. Connect the
tube leading to the
bottom of the flask
with a gas cock and
Connect
diameter.
drive out the air. To
the glass elbow with
the other tube cona gas cock, and turnnect an 18 -inch length
ing on the gas drive
of rubber tubing, in
out the air from the
the end of which is
bottle. Light the gas
inserted a glass deat the top of the
Have
livery tube.
straight tube and
the end of this tube
then withdraw the
bent up slightly and
elbow with its stop place it in a basin of
per, at the same time
water.
turning off the gas.
Now heat the conGas." You Can Bottle t and Use It to Your
The flame will con- Your Own Gas Gene rator; Making "Water
Heart's Content.
tents of the flask and
tinue to burn at the
as the solution begins
top of the straight
gas called the "oxidizing" flame and an to boil a gas will be given off which spontube for a few minutes and then seem to
disappear entirely. But do not conclude inner cone of unburned gas called the "re- taneously ignites on reaching the air.
that nothing will happen. Wait, and sud- ducing" flame.
AN ACETYLENE LAMP.
That the inner cone is not undergoing
denly a sharp report will occur and the
large mouthed bottle of one or
a
Obtain
the
bottle will be filled with a sheet of flame. combustion is very strikingly shown in
chimney,
following way Thrust a pin thru a match two quarts capacity, a large lamp one
In a darkened room the effect is much
-holed
small disc of coarse wire gauze,
stick about a half inch below the head.
more impressive.
rubber stopper, 6 -inch length of glass tubMount this in the top of a Bunsen burner
As the burning gas escapes, air enters
rubber connection, acetylene gas tip
thru the open neck until the bottle is full and turn on the gas. Now light the gas ing,
wire.
and observe that the match does not burn. and 18 inches of heavyonaluminum
page 1328)
(Continued
To show that it has not burned turn off
Gas
Ave,
pper
ty/nde
the gas and it will be found that the match
is perfectly good and can be lighted in the
usual way.
Another very striking experiment to
/fire gauze
demonstrate this fact is illustrated in figure
wrrtlindig
613 Je/
6. Make a burner of a small glass funnel
coed/e I.6ine
(ao//ame)
and over the top place a piece of fine coppmenls ,gas
per gauze. In the center of the gauze
lrom/gnihhg
place a small heap of gunpowder or flashlight powder. Turn on the gas and light
it by bringing a match down from above.
The gas will burn but the powder will
remain unignited. Slowly turn off the gas
and as the flame diminishes in size the
fi9.5
fig.6
e
powder will ignite.
Secure a 2 -holed Woolf bottle of two

or three liters capacity and fit the necks
with stoppers carrying glass tubes as
shown in Figure 4.
The straight tube
should be about 10 or
millimeters in
12
The Plan of the Miners Safety Lamp Show

mg That an Explosive or Dangerous Gas
Will Burn Inside the Wire Gauze Cage, Vet
Not Ignite the Atmosphere of Gas Surrounding It.
Demon -rating That the Inner Cone of the
Bunsen Flame Is Cool.
SPONTANEOUS IGNITION OF HYDROGEN.

Direct a stream of hydrogen from a
generator on some platinized asbestos. when

the asbestos will be seen to glow and presently the hydrogen will ignite.
The Very Pretty Prosphine Ring Trick. The

Above Diagram Demonstrates a Stunt Whicl
Experimenter Should Refrain Frcm
No
Conducting.
1272
April,
1920
iyTw THE CONSTRUCTOR

Hom mad
11
-Volt, 6 -Cycle
In .taction
y
ANY uses could be found for a

small single -phase motor which
would connect up to an ordinary
110 -volt lamp socket, and while
such motors are not high priced
many Amateur Mechanics wish to build
them themselves, but are deterred by the
difficulty of making or obtaining field and
rotor punchings, for, unlike the direct current variety, both the stator, or field magnet, and rotor cores must be built up of
iron sheets or laminations.

No originality is claimed in the main design of the small motor to be described, but
an attempt has been made to lay out a strong
and substantial construction not too difficult to be built at home on a small screw cutting lathe. The power of this little motor would depend to some extent upon the
materials used and the workmanship and
care in making the windings, but it should
be serviceable for driving a fan, buffing
wheel, rotary spark gap, or various types
of light machinery. Having but one set of
windings upon rotor and stator, it is not
self- starting and will not start under a full
load, this being characteristic of all such
types of alternating current machinery. But
by using a tight and loose pulley or a similar contrivance and giving the belt a sharp
pull after throwing the switch, the motor
will pick up speed without difficulty. Another crude but effective starting device is
shown in the assembly drawing (Fig. 2) ;
this consists of a spool shown on the left hand end of the shaft around which a heavy
cord is wound and the motor given a starting whirl by a quick pull of this cord.
In regard to the laminations field and
rotor are built up of sheets of "stove pipe"
iron of about 22 gage, tho if regular transformer iron or silicon steel was obtainable
a more efficient, as well as more expensive,
machine could be produced. Even tho these
sheets could be given a form simple enough
to be cut out by hand, separately, with tintrees snips, this would be a formidable
undertaking, and the method decided upon
here is to cut out square sheets, pile them
up, clamp together, drill out along the required outlines by means of a jig plate,
then separate, break out the portions not
needed and finish by filing and in the lathe.
Even this means considerable work, when
compared with the construction of a direct
current machine, but to partly compensate
for this the A.C. motor has no commutator,
slip rings nor brush holders, the rotor windings being short -circuited. As seen in Figs.
1 and 2, the motor has four poles, with four
stator coils, while the rotor has four wide
slots and also four poles, with no electrical
connection between stator and rotor. At a
frequency of 60 cycles the speed will be a
little under 1,800 r.p.m.
Fig. 3 shows the shape of the stator laminations and Fig. 4 of the rotor. By referring to Fig. 1 it will be seen that with the
rotor in the position shown the spaces, or
slots, in the rotor, lie opposite the stator
pole faces, while the rotor faces lie next
:
mai.
tr
PARUSER
to the stator slots. By using care and with
an accurate drill press or lathe drill pad

it might be possible to cut both a rotor and
stator lamination from one sheet of iron,
by making narrow separations at the corners where the rotor faces meet the corners
of the stator poles. Otherwise separate
square sheets must be used for stator and
rotor laminations, requiring, of course, considerable more material. A saving could
be effected by making each stator sheet in
two parts, as per the dotted lines in Fig. 3,
and "breaking joints" when assembling the
pile, but this would introduce a little more
reluctance into the magnetic circuit. Figs.
6 and 7 illustrate the method of making the
drilling jigs out of a scrap plate of half or
three-eighths inch cast iron or steel. Care
should be taken in laying out these jigs that
enough material will be left around the
edges of the sheets, after drilling, to allow
of a smooth finish. To use the jigs, the
square sheets are piled up to make a depth
of two inches, for both stator and rotor,
when comprest; this would take about 68
sheets of 22-gage iron. After clamping or
bolting, by the corners, to a hardwood
board, the center hole is drilled and two
lines scribed exactly at right angles thru
the center then the four 11/32 -inch holes
in the stator and 5/32 -inch holes in the
rotor are drilled, rotating the jig so as to
use the same hole thru it each time and taking care that the holes were exactly ninety
degrees apart. Then a pin is driven thru
the half -inch hole of the jig and one of
these holds the jig furthermore clampt to
the pile, and one -quarter of the holes
drilled; the jig is then shifted thru a right
angle and the process repeated, and so on
until all the holes are thru. With an accurate drill press the whole pile could be
drilled thru at once, but in other cases it
might be best to drill half of the plates, or
a pile one inch high, at a time. The plates
are now separated, the pieces broken out,
reassembled and the edges finisht to size
with a file. Previously to separating a shallow hacksaw cut should be made across the
pile at some point, to insure getting them
back in the same position, and before reassembling the outside corners are cut off
to make less work for the lathe.
The stator plates are then assembled and
bolted to the lathe face-plate, with a hardwood packing piece in between, centered up
and bored out and the outside turned down
to the given diameter. They must then be
taken apart again and all burrs cleaned off
the edges to prevent making electric contact between the laminations before the
final assembly each plate is given a thin
coat of shellac on one side and allowed to
dry. 5/16" bolts are used and each is
wrapt in shellacked paper so that when
dry it may be just driven into the 11/32"
hole without tearing the wrapping. This
bolt and rivet insulation is necessary for
the insulation of the laminations. Similarly,
., rivets are insulated and put thru the
5/32" holes. The plates should be clampt
;
tightly together but not so tight as to

spring them open where there are no bolts
or rivets. The rotor core is similarly constructed, but the laminations are held on
the shaft by two pairs of locknuts as well
as %" bolts, insulated with paper and fiber
nuts, which also act as posts to hold the
windings in place.
All the machine work must be completed
before starting the winding. In regard to the
bearings (Fig. 8-A), these are cast in brass
or bronze; heavy bar brass with bearing
bushings soldered or brazed in might also
be used. The bearing yokes are separated
from the stator core by cast iron, steel or
brass posts, which also act as nuts to clamp
the laminations together. There are several
possible ways to drill out the bearings. One
would be to put an 11/32" drill thru the
bolt holes in the core, spot the bearing
yokes and then drill and ream them 5/16' .
Then put in the 5/16" bolts (Fig. 7 -A), insulated with shellacked paper and screw home
the posts. Drill and ream to
a 2"
length of steel shafting, drive it thru a hole
in a 2" hardwood block, place between centers in the lathe and turn the block to a
diameter that would just allow it to be
pusht into the bore of the stator (3/16 ").
Then put in the short bearing studs (Fig. 8)
and bolt one of the bearing yokes in place.
Using the steel busht block as a jig, drill
and ream the bearing yoke.
Two angle plates (Fig. 9) are cast in iron
or brass for the motor base; these can be
mounted on an angle plate on the face -plate
and faced to take the stator core ; one 5/16"
bolt, also wrapt in paper, holds both in
;"
place.
The rotor laminations, as previously mentioned, are held to the shaft by two sets of
locknuts, one set of which have 1" flanges.
Or two 1" washers and four S. A. E. r s"
nuts could be used. In any event, after
screwing up these nuts and their lock nuts
to clamp the laminations tightly, they are
turned down to finish dimensions and the
shaft also turned to finish size. If done
previously to this, clamping the laminations
might spring the shaft. Two grooves are
turned, with sharp edges, to prevent oil
working up into the rotor windings. A light
cut is also taken to true up the surface of
the rotor. Then the insulated 4" bolts are
run thru and clampt by the fiber posts.
Figs. 10, 11.)
THE WINDINGS.
Now for the windings. Procure a roll of

"armature" tape, wrap some around the
stator cores, tie it and cover with shellac.
The construction of the stator precludes the
use of form wound coils; so enough wire
for one coil is wound on a spool small
enough to pass thru the core, and the coil
is wound by hand. A couple of split flanges
of very thin fiber could be slipt on each end
of the core and glued together, the splits
opposite, to act as heads for the coil. No. 22
D.C.C. copper wire is used for the stator;
April,
1920
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Something of Interest to Every Young Electrician -an Electro- Monogram Sign Which Is
Easily Constructed at Small Cost.
HERE, boys, is a signaling outfit that

you may use at night, spelling out,
one letter at a time, any message you
desire to send to your "pal" across the
street or over on the next avenue. No
code is necessary. You merely place a metallic bar across groups of wires and the
monogram, which contains electric lights,
forms the desired letters.
You may construct the monogram any
size you desire. A small one may be operated with batteries, or a large one may be
connected with the 110 -volt lighting circuit
of your home.
A shallow box is used in the construc-
1920
the Boys
when lamp No. 8 is lighted, the whole

trough indicated by No. 8 is lighted. When
various combinations of these lamps are
lighted, different letters may be formed.
The entire alphabet and all of the numerals
may be formed with this monogram.
The wiring diagram is shown on the
back of the monogram. The heavy line
is a continuous wire which is attached to
one side of every lamp. This line goes
to one side of the battery or power line.
Now one wire is run from the other
side of each lamp to the switch -board terminals shown on the left of the board in
the drawing. The lamps numbered 2 and
those numbered 19 may be connected to
one wire, as there is no letter that requires the use of one No. 2 lamp without the other. The same holds true in
the No. 19 lamps. That means that we
have nineteen wires to connect to the
switch -board terminals. Only twelve wires
are shown in the drawing for the sake of
simplicity.
On the switch -board the nineteen wires
are run across loosely until the letter
groups such as T, P, I, F and the dash
have been tapt. They may then be formed
into a cable to give plenty of room on
the board for the letter groups.
By tracing out the wires in the T group,
it will be found that the lamps to which
these wires are connected will form the
letter T when lighted. The same is true
of the P, I, F and dash groups. The wires
forming the letter groups are stretched
across bridges about a quarter of an inch
high and fastened at the ends. The bridges
should bb made of wood or other nonconducting material. The portion of the
wires between the bridges should be bared.
Now a wire is run from the source of
current to the center of the bottom of the
board and there a single -wire cord is attached. At the end of this cord a T- shaped
metal bar is placed. The handle should be
wrapt with tape or otherwise insulated if
strong current is used. The bar must have
contact with the wire cord. When the bar
is placed across the bare wires in any letter group, the lamps to which those wires
are connected will be lighted, illuminating
the desired letter.
The letter groups may be arranged in
rows in alphabetical order or after the
manner of a typewriter keyboard. When
the operator gets accustomed to the positions of the letter groups he will be able
to spell out messages with great rapidity.
Contributed by ALTON D. SPENCER.
front
Bock
4
April,
tion of the monogram. In case you make

a small size, a cigar box of proper proportions is just right. It should be slightly
longer than it is wide, but the proportions
do not need to be exact.
The light portions of the monogram
shown in the picture are troughs. Thin
wood or metal may be used in making
these troughs. They should be about as
deep as the length of the lamps used in
them, allowing a glass front to be placed
on the monogram if desired. Each trough
is furnished with a lamp. as indicated by
the numbered circles. The troughs are
painted white to form a reflector. Thus
Men5urrIlng ELectirIlc CourpeEra WIltra .ahe Eye

By C. A. BRIIGGS
AWASHINGTON scientist at the
Bureau of Standards has devised an
ingenious arrangement whereby it is
possible to measure the amperes of electric current by means of a sort of photometer. In his scheme the brightness of a
hot filament is matched against a bright
background. This may have an application to alternating current work, and particularly to wireless work where it has been
always necessary to get some means whereby the value of an alternating or high -frequency current can be reduced to its equivalent direct current.
The method can be understood by reference to the accompanying diagram. The

electric bulb at the closed end illuminates
a ground glass screen the image of which
is thrown, by means of an achromatic lens,
on the filament of the second bulb. The
filament of the second bulb is viewed
against the bright background thus formed

by means of the eyepiece, which is provided
w th a color screen so that the observer is
working always in light of one color. The
first bulb is heated by an electric current

controlled by a rheostat. The value of this
current can be determined, as indicated in
Ground gloss
screen ,.
Rheostat
Ih
7o potent/envier
%;
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Lens
Current to be measured
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Arrangement of Electric Lamp Apparatus for Measuring the Current Strength By Matching the Brightness of a Hot Filament Against a Bright Background.
April,
1277
1920
Battery, So As Not to Damage the Lead Paste Filling.

-Great Care Must Be Taken in Removing the Plates from aandStorage
Not Cracked Or Broken. 3 -The Terminal Connections May
That the Insulators Between the Lead Plates are Perfect
Or Fused By Current Obtained from Another Storage Battery, Using a Pointed Electrode As Shown.
to Tm
SINCE automobiles have become so
popular many profitable occupations
and side lines are afforded for rebuilding and adjusting their various parts.
This is especially true of storage battery repairing and recharging. Most garages in small towns are not in a position or
have not time to take them apart and bother
-See to It
Be Soldered
a3 miz tin
By HENRY KLAU
explained later) is allowed to flow until the
cells gas freely, then continue the charge
for 6 hours at the finish rate (in this case
41/2 amperes with about 5 lamps connected). Never hold a match near the vent
holes while charging as the products of
electrolysis explode. If one of the cells
has become short -circuited or for some
other reason is below the rest, it should be
charged separately until it is up with the
intervals of one or two months to keep the

Sp. Gr. up as long as it is not in use. A
repair station should make a specialty of
storing batteries for auto owners. If the
batteries are neglected and allowed to
freeze the active material of the plates becomes spongy and will fall off. The table
gives the freezing points of various den-
with them, so they send them away to some

sities.
larger place to have it done. Any one with
1150 Freezes 20 above Zero Fahr.
a little experience can do this
0
"
1180
beprofit
handsome
make
a
and
20 below "
1215
"
I/
sides. It is the object of this
"
60
1.250
paper to explain briefly the main
a 100
circuit
Volt
110
a
On
apthe
in
observed
-l'1%irped
points to be
1 AmCon/act-of
nearly
draws
lamp
Watt
work.
plication of this
Plate
Amp.
pere and a 50 or 60 W.
The equipment needed corn- Warped ?kite e
used
are
lamps
size
When
these
voltprises a syringe hydrometer,
%nsu/afor
(110
resistance
the
charging
for
BOTTOM
VIEW
Of-SET
homeammeter, welder (electric
easily
is
flow
the
current
V.)
test
clips
WARPED
Of PLATES. ONE /S
made), saw, blow- torch,
calculated. The connections for
lead covered, pincers, sulfuric
this outfit are shown in the dia(can
acid, solder, distilled water
Current
gram. Don't forget to connect
be made in the still shown), genLeads
the positive side of the current
erator or rectifier and lamps for
TestC/ips
supply to the positive terminal of
charging.
a number of
to Hook on the battery. Quite connected
While battery repairing could Lamp
in
batteries can be
be done without a charging ap- /Desistance
Batteries
Switch
series and charged at the same
paratus, it would be very incontime. If you have test clips put
CHARGING CIRCUIT
venient to carry them to a garage
them on the ends of the charging
or service station to be charged
terminals, painting the positive
every time after they were finred; also provide a few wires
ished. Many experimenters are
about a foot long with a test clip
equipt with D.C., or, a rectifier
on each end. With these a concan be purchased from any elecnection is easily and instantly
trical house. It will pay well to
made.
install this because the money exVery commonly a battery comes
pended is soon made back on it.
Fireor5tove
in that has one or more cells
When a battery is brought in
which will not raise even after a
the first thing to do is test the
SIMPLE STILL
day or two of continuous chargvoltage. If the cells show from
This condition is usually
1 to 2 V. each they probably need Useful Hints On Storage Battery Repairing. Top -How Plates Be- ing.
Short -circuited By Sulfating, Over -discharge Or Over -re- caused by warped plates which
only charging. Next draw enough come
Center -Charging Circuit with Lamp Bank. The Lamps have worn thru the insulators
electrolyte from each cell sepa- charge.
are of the Voltage Rating of the Line Potential. Positive Line
other. Such a
rately into the hydrometer syringe Goes to Positive Terminal of Storage Battery. Bottom -Simple and touch eachcannot
be charged
Still Made from Kettle and Large Bottle for Distilling Water for cell, obviously,
to float the hydrometer, take Storage
invariably Contains as the current goes thru the point
Never Use Spigot Water
reading, and put it back again in Sufficient Cells.
Battery
Your
Mineral Traces to Sulfate or Disintegrate
of contact. The only remedy is
the same cell. The table below
Plates.
to take out the plates and insulate
shows the relative strength of the
others and then connect them all in. Some the places where they come together. A
battery at the various readings :
times a cell lags behind because the electro- whole new insulator can be put in, or, a
1250 80% strength of battery
O
lyte leaks out of a cracked jar, and every strip an inch wide can be put in from top to
1225 60%
"
o
o
time water is added the Sp. Gr. becomes bottom where the pressure comes. These
1200 40%
o
o
O
If the Sp. insulators may be obtained from any house
less. This is taken up later.
1175 20%
"
selling storage batteries. (Diagram shows
Gr. does not reach 1275 or over after 6
1150 exhausted.
finish
rate
continue
at
the
putting in separators.)
hours
of
charging
a
Sp.
have
A fully charged battery should
As they increase in age storage cells deat this rate until there is no increase. If a
Gr. of 1.275, or 1275 on the hydrometer,
long
period
for
a
teriorate.
In a storage battery the active
neglected
battery
has
been
shows
a
but it sometimes occurs that one
to
it
up
falls
from the grids. This is
days
bring
to
material
it
may
several
take
density of 1300 or even 1325.
capacity. Never add acid to raise the den- hastened where they are used on an autoThe charging rate will be found on the sity until the battery is fully charged. If mobile, because of the jolts they get. The
lead name plate tacked to the case. Here is it must be added it should have a Sp. Gr. of more material they lose the less charge they
an example:
will hold. It is the positive element that
1210.
almost always falls out first and a new
Start 131/2 Amp. Finish 41/2 Amp.
A battery set away for the winter or
should
length
of
time
set of these plates will often make a good
idle
for
any
standing
131/2
amperes
of
current
case
a
In this
and
afterwards
at
charged
first
fully
be
the
lamp
bank
in
lights
Watt
(about 14 -100
OE OK*
-C
-it
IS
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:April,
1920
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By H. WIINFEEFioD SECOt3
No.
THE erection of dynamos and motors
always a matter requiring extreme

care, particularly when it comes to
properly and exactly alining the
pulleys on the motor and on the shaft
which it is to drive. The leveling of the
is
Diagram Showing How Motor and Shafting

Pulleys Are Lined . Up for Belt Drive by
Means of a String or Chalk Line. If One
Pulley Is Narrower Than the Other, Then it
Is Centered as Shown at "B."
base of the machinery, as well as the leveling of the shaft are also very important
matters which we shall here give our consideration.
Referring to Fig. 1, A, B and C represent different phases of the art of alining
two pulleys, such as those on a motor and
on a line shaft. At Fig. 1 -A, the fundamental principle followed in lining up two
pulleys of equal face width is illustrated.
A strong cord or chalk line is held across
the two faces of the pulleys so that the
string shall touch at the four points marked
"X." Usually two men do this, but if you
have to do this alone, as will happen occasionally, then the string may be tightened
around the pulley or otherwise secured at
its highest point, when you can easily pull
the string taut and bring it gradually into
line with the lower base of the top pulley,
and then move the motor to be mounted into
position, so that its pulley face will be in
perfect alinment with the cord.
Care must be taken to see that the cord
is not allowed to assume an angular position such as shown, in a greatly exaggerated manner, by the dotted line E and F.
In some cases the two pulleys, that is the
driver and the driven, are not of the same
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Filled With Water and Fitted
With a Gage
Glass on Either End Proves Very Successful
and Useful.
6- ERECTING
MOTORS AND SHAFTING
face width. In this case the string is applied as shown at B, in the usual manner,
and by means of a rule the difference between the two pulley widths is divided up
proportionately. For instance, if the larger
pulley has an 8 -inch face and the small
pulley a 6 -inch face, then if the two are to
be alined, as is most always the case, then
one inch space should be allowed on each
side of the small pulley face when it is
checked by a cord held on either side of
the large pulley, as becomes clear upon
examining the diagram.
If the method of lining up pulleys with
the cord is not quite clear, a glance at Fig.
1 -C will make it so.
Here it is seen how a
cord is past, as nearly as possible, across
the two diameters of the respective pulleys.
Where the shaft projects thru a pulley, then
the cord is simply pulled taut a little to one
side of it, which gives exactly as good results as if there were no shaft projection,
and the string past exactly over the diameters. The length of the belt, which is to
connect the pulleys is usually measured by
means of a strong, non-stretchable cord,
past over the two pulleys or else by means
of a tape measure.
If the belt is to be a very exact fit,
and of the endless variety, then the tape
measure should be a steel one, so as to
give a very exact reading. Most all motors, however, are fitted with belt- tightening screws on their base, so that quite a
little variation is allowed for tightening up
the belt, once it is put into place.
LEVELING SHAFTING.
The leveling of shafting, whether large

or small, is an important affair, if the
best efficiency and quietest running results
are to be obtained. Figs. 2, A, B and C
show some useful wrinkles in leveling

shafts. The usual method for ordinary
work is to employ a first -class steel level
preferably one having a V- shaped bottom
-and the shafting should be turned into
several different positions, so as to get a
mean average on the level readings, and
also the level should be placed on several
points along the shaft while making the
measurements, such as those indicated by
X, X, X.
A unique suggestion to help in simplifying the leveling of long shafts, or, for that
matter, short ones, is shown at Fig. 2 -B.'
Two boiler gage glasses or other suitable
glass tubes are hooked up with a length of
rubber garden hose or rubber tubing; this
is then filled with water, the water not
quite reaching the tops of the gage glasses.
The free ends of the gage glasses are fitted
with hooks, which may pass over the shaft
and hold it in position in the manner shown.
This method is quite exact indeed, as it is
well known that water or any other liquid
will always seek its own level. In this case
we at once perceive that the water level in
the two gage glasses will be the true level,
and if we then measure from these points
indicated on the gage glasses to the surface
of the shafting and keep changing the position of the shafting until these two distances, D and E, are equal, then we know
that the shaft is perfectly level.
Where several shaft hangers have to be
put in place before the shafting is available, the hangers are readily lined tip and
secured to the ceiling or side wall, whichever the case may be, by means of a center
cord or string, as shown at Fig. 2-C. If
more than two hangers are to be mounted
by this method, then the two extreme end
ones should be alined and put into place
first. Intermediate hangers can then be
readily lined up by means of the center
string, which should be placed exactly thru

the Centers of the bearings in the end hangers, as becomes evident. Of course the string
must be carefully checked up with a good
spirit level, so that it is in a perfectly level
plane. The shaft hangers are usually held
on ceiling beams by means of lag bolts.
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The Leveling of Motors and Dynamos Is Not
Always the Easiest Proposition Imaginable.
Several Ways of Leveling Up Electrical
Machinery Are Here Shown.
LEVELING DYNAMOS AND MOTORS.
The leveling of dynamos and motor

frames is not always the easiest task imaginable. This is particularly true in the
case of small motors and dynamos having
round or special housings, as shown at
Fig. 3 -A. An idea which can sometimes be
brought into play, for such machines, is to
have a leveling cradle of the form shown,
and which may be adjustable for different
sizes of machinery, which can be placed so
as to rest on the shaft on both ends of the
motor. The two lower feet of the leveling
cradle should have V- shaped slots in them.
The level is then placed on top of the
cradle, as shown.. In other cases there
is often a sufficient amount of machined surface on the base of the motor
so that it can be leveled in the necessary
two directions, i.e., at right angles to one
another at the points marked Xl, X2 and
X3, or on both sides, and front and back
of the base.
In some instances it is possible and permissible on a small motor or dynamo to
level it close enough by placing the level
proper on the face of the pulley, as shown
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Small and Medium Size Dynamos and Motors

Are Here Illustrated, Mounted on Both Ceiling and Floor. Motors, Even Small Ones,
Should Not Be Held to the Ceiling Beams by
Lag Bolts Alone for a First Class Job, as
Belting Strains Are Liable to Putt( (t From
Its Moorings.
April,
1279
1920
$2.00; Third Prize, $1.00.

This department will award the following monthly prizes: First Prize, $3.00; Second Prize,
material,
accomplishing new things with old apparatus or old
The purpose of this department is to stimulate experimenters towards
awarded.
of this department, a monthly serles of prizes will be$1.00.
and for the most useful, practical and original idea submitted to the Editors
The
of
best
prize
third
the
for
and
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second
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For the best idea submitted
of sheet.
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Use
drawings
mechanical
article need not be very elaborate, and rough sketches are sufficient. We will make the
Make sketches on separate sheets.
;
SECOND PRIZE, $2.00
THIRD PRIZE, $1.00
MAKING A PERMANENT MAGNE?

METER.
A CONVENIENT HORN DEVICE
FIRST PRIZE, $3.00

A
"TESTED" ELECTRIC FURNACE.
I am a
1:ave been
reriments
taking the
grams of
reader of your magazine and

interested in some of the expublisht in it, and am therefore
liberty of sending you the dia an electric arc fur. -..ce which I
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An Electric Furnace That Works!

stat Is Used In Series With
A Rheo
It.
I have experimented quite a bit on making various kinds of meters and have found
great satisfaction in the ammeter here described. Procure a horseshoe type permanent steel magnet, about the size of a
telephone magnet ; a cork, some fine magnet
wire, tin, cardboard and pins, etc. Cut the
heads off the pins and insert one in each
end of the cork, but be careful that they
do not touch-and wind the wire around
the cork, as in illustration, and connect each
end of the fine magnet wire to the two
pins so the pins act as bearings and the
cork as an armature. Mount the armature
between two pieces of brass strip to act as
bearings and place the armature between
the poles of the horseshoe magnet. Next
bend a piece of copper or aluminum wire
and insert one end into the cork. Mount
the meter on a planed wood base and fix
a cardboard dial under the wire. Calibrate
it by means of a standard ammeter and
batteries.
LEE HOLMES.
Contributed by
have used in my laboratory for some time

with good success.
I believe the diagram to be self explana-
tory of the method of construction, and

can he made from odds and ends to be
found in any shop. I have used the above
furnace to fuse brass, copper, silver, gold
and platinum very satisfactorily as a high
degree of heat can be obtained.
I also give a diagram of the resistance
used in connection with the furnace. I
used about thirty feet of No. 24 iron wire
wound into a 3/16 -inch coil which I then
wound around a flinch porcelain tube.
This was then suspended in a piece of
brass pipe 6 inches long and poured full
of plaster of Paris. It must be noted that
before this can be used it must be placed
over a very slow fire and thoroly dried
out else it would either burn out the coil
or explode, due to the moisture being driven
off too rapidly. I used this outfit on the
regular 110 -volt circuit.
Contributed by DR. A. T. FRIEDLINE.
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I had my wireless apparatus on a high
polished table and as I did not wish to
mar the table by fastening the apparatus A SHORT-CIRCUIT EXPERIMENT.
to it, besides being bothered by having the
Practically everybody knows that if a
instruments slide out of place and scratchis short ing the top, I cut up some rubber bands battery connected to ago bulb
out. But look
x 1 ") and glued them around circuited, the bulb will
(about
at Fig. 1. The short -circuiting element is
the edge of the base, 8" or 10" apart.
an ordinary battery carbon. Close switch
MAUS.
M.
HERBERT
by
Contributed
A and the bulbs light brightly. Close switch
B, and no change in bulb. Why shouldn't
it dim? Oh, you think, you only "shorted"
one battery. But look at Fig. 2. Here after
A is closed and then B, the bell still continues to ring, despite the fact that all the
S1 rubber
current is short -circuited. Oh, you say,
foot
current does not pass thru carbon. But
connect as in Fig. 3 and the bell will ring,
Any
of
Rubber Feet I
indicating that it will. The owner of a
Electrical It Insulation
/"
FOR AUTOMOBILES.
Purchase a wrist-watch case for about

50 cents and cut out a piece of tin large
enough to admit a pushbutton, but leave
the outside rim large enough to fit the
watch case snugly. Procure a flexible lamp
cord of sufficient length to permit the
Tin
ìsc`\
Pushbutton
lyrist
__
watch
ho/der
Ta
auto horn..
circuit
tE
Wrist
Mount Your Auto Horn Button on

Watch Band and See How Convenient
Proves.
a
It
driver to hold one end with his arm outside

Now
the car, as when turning a corner.
connect the wires to the button and
Our
to the electric horn circuit.
circuit being complete, let us pass on
to the uses of the push-button. You may
strap the button to your index and second
finger, so that the button may be in place
for the fingers to be prest against the wheel
without removing the hand. Now again, to
blow the horn while turning a corner. Simply extend the hand and press the button
with the thumb, and continue to steer the
car with the other. By this arrangement
you may blow the horn, signal to turn the
corner by extending the arm, and guide the
car-all at the same time. If the driver
should not wish to use the button all the
time, he may wind the wire around the
steering rod and strap the 'button anywhere
on the steering wheel. But pessimists may
argue -"They will be easily stolen." I maintain that you can place a separable connector
costing 15 cents in the circuit, so that the
apparatus may be disconnected and placed
under the seat or elsewhere. I find this a
decided improvement over the present
method, and think it will be worth a trial
by all motorists.
LYLE CASHION.
Contributed by
Wheatstone bridge will easily ascertain the

reason, however. It is a well-known fact
that electricity will pass thru the conductor
of least resistance.
PHILIP A. WALL.
Contributed by
l
"T-Emai
B~-1
if
fig.l
fig. 2
El
fig
Conundrum: When Is a "Short -Circuit" Not

a Short -Circuit?
1280
1. Heat a little sulfur with concentrated

nitric acid until it has disappeared. Observe the red fumes. Insert a burning
match into them and note that they support
combustion. When the reaction is over,
Ni/i Gas
Pigi
Red //lmUS solution
fij.3
in beo/rer
fig 2
Some Very interesting Experiments In Chem-
istry are Here Illustrated and Described.
1920
S. GERNSBACK
EDITED BY
INTERESTING CHEMICAL
EXPERIMENTS.
April,
careful observation you will see the lead

tree grow.
6. Alcohol from sugar.
Dissolve 30
grams of table sugar (granulated) in 400
c.c. of water. Pour this into a flask provided with a stopper and delivery tube.
Add
cake of yeast and set aside in a
warm place. It would be well to have the
delivery tube dipt into lime water, so as
to show that carbon dioxid is given off.
Allow this to stand for a few days. You
can then distill off the dilute alcohol. This
is done by distilling about half of the
liquid and. discarding the remainder. It
may be necessary to distill off half again
before the alcohol is strong enough to
burn.
7. Boil 10 grams of powdered nutgals
in 80 c.c. of water. Filter after standing.
There is now tannin in the solution. Add
to this a solution of iron sulfate. Some
inks are made in this manner.
8. Place a small piece of phosforous in
a porcelain dish (free from water), and
the same amount of iodine. The reaction
proceeds by itself with the production of
much light and heat.
9. Place a little powdered antimony into
a jar of chlorin. It immediately catches
fire and gives off a shower of sparks. Heat
a piece of thin copper 'foil and plunge it
into a jar of chlorin. Observe that it
catches fire immediately, forming copper
chlorid. Paint a piece of paper with turpentine and hold it in a flame until it begins to light. Quickly plunge it into a jar
of chlorin. There will be a flash and great
clouds of carbon are produced. Flowers,
calico, etc., may be bleached by moistening
and placing in a jar of chlorin.
10. Make an intimate mixture of equal
parts of potassium chlorate and sugar.
Set this in a pile and add a drop of sulfuric acid (concentrated).
The mass
catches fire at once and flares up.
11. A very striking experiment to illustrate the solubility of ammonia gas is to
fill a flask completely with the gas and insert a stopper provided with a straight
piece of tubing. (See Fig. 3). To this
is added a piece of rubber tubing over
which a clamp is placed. To this is attached another straight piece of glass
tubing which dips into the bottom of a
beaker of red litmus. When the clamp is
opened, the water rises and the color
changes to blue. This will take place
sooner if water is put into the upper piece
of tubing. (Fig. 3).
Contributed by
EDWARD MARENZANA.
allow the tube and its contents to cool, then

add barium chlorid solution and a white
precipitate will be formed. This shows the
presence of sulfuric acid. The sulfur has
been oxidized by the nitric acid to sulfuric
acid.
2. Burn a little sulfur in a bottle of
oxygen and note the phenomenon. Do the
same with phosforous. This time if the
room is dark, the reaction will be more
brilliant. Burn some charcoal also in
oxygen and note the scintillation. Slip a
small piece of cotton into melted sulfur,
then attach it to a piece of picture wire.
Ignite this and lower into a bottle of oxygen. Note how readily the wire burns and
the globule of red hot iron that forms on
the end.
3. Generate hydrogen and allow it to escape from under water. Hold a lighted
splint over the escaping bubbles. (Fig. 1).
LIQUEFYING A GAS.
As each one escapes it is ignited and exThe actual liquefying of a gas is an
plodes. This sounds like a miniature bat- experiment
of great interest, and in the
tle. Another way is to blow hydrogen
case of sulfur dioxid easy to carry out.
bubbles and as they rise, set fire to each.
The apparatus is set up as shown in the
(Fig. 2).
diagram. A is an Erlenmeyer flask carry4. Dissolve some yellow phosforous in
ing a dropping funnel and containing in
carbon disulfid and paint a sheet of paper the bottom a layer of sodium
sulfite powwith this solution. In a darkened room
der. The
contains a solution of
the phosforous will glow after the carbon sulfuric acidfunnel
made by pouring the concendisulfid has evaporated. Do not leave the trated acid very slowly
into an equal volsolution or brush around. The bottle ume of water and allowing
to cool. B is
should always be tightly corked.
a gas -washing bottle containing concen5. Dissolve 15 -20 grams of lead acetate
trated sulfuric acid. C is a battery jar
(sugar of lead) in 500 c.c. of water and containing a U -tube packed in a freezing
place in a wide mouth bottle. Suspend in
mixture of salt and ice.
this liquid a piece of sheet zinc by a string.
After the set -up has been made allow the
Allow it to stand for a day or so. By acid from the funnel to drop slowly
upon
.
the sulfite. A rapid evolution of sulfur

dioxid gas will at once begin, and in passing
thru the U -tube the gas will be condensed
to a clear colorless liquid.
Freezing Action of the Gas-Pour a little of the liquid gas into 10 cc. of water
in a small beaker. The mixture, upon
stirring, will immediately crystallize to a
solid mass.
Place a little water on a block of wood
and upon it set a small beaker containing
a little of the liquid gas. The rapid evaporation of the liquid will produce intense
cold and freeze the beaker to the block.
Contributed by FLOYD L. DARROW.
su/pIor dioxide generator wdh dropping 4'3
containing soip/wric cod
B. Mash bottle calla /ng emm hzvkcesu/urre
oriel
C job ernlo /ng U- /alb. pocArdino freezing
mix /uro of sod onece
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Apparatus Set Up for Experiment In Liquefying a Gas.
TO GIVE PLASTER FIGURES APPEARANCE OF MARBLE.

Put one ounce of grated pure curd -soap
into four pounds of clear water. Dissolve
in a well -glazed earthen vessel. Then add

one ounce of white bees -wax cut into
thin slices. As soon as the whole is incorporated it is ready for use. Having
well dried the plaster figure before the
fire, suspend it by a piece of twine, and
dip it once into the above varnish. Upon
taking it out the moisture will appear to
have been absorbed. In about two minutes
stir the solution and give the figure another dip. Two dips are usually sufficient.
Allow the figure, carefully covered to
protect it from all dust, to stand for a
week, then with a soft muslin rag, or
cotton wool, rub the figure gently, when a
most brilliant gloss will be produced.
Contributed by
WALTER CHAS. MICHEL.
METHOD OF TESTING WOOLEN

AND COTTON THREADS.
Take a few threads of the material to
be tested and place in a test tube with
enough nitric acid to cover them. Bring
just to the boiling point over a flame and
allow to cool. Pour a small quantity of
ammonium hydroxide in the tube and note
the change. If the liquid is not changed in
color the material is cotton, but if the
liquid assumes an amber color the material
is woolen. In either case dense white
fumes of ammonium nitrate will be
evolved from the tube.
Wool contains much nitrogenious matter
while cotton contains none. This accounts
for the change. The above is a sure test.
I have used it repeatedly.
Contributed by
JOHN ELIOT CHRYSTAL.
April,
1281
1920
RADIO DEPARTMENT
Some Lon
DIl
temce
mclIlo
Te,ephne Teata
ROt3ERT F. GOWEN*
S
1 RIES of radio telephone tests andd

experiments by the writer performed during the months of December and January have produced
some results which may be interest-
Upon installation, no difficulty was experienced in making the transmitter operate

successfully on 750 meters for tests and
demonstrations with the deForest labora-
the readers of
the ELECTRICAL
The results are interesting, not only because of the records made,
but of the peculiar conditions under which
the experiments were performed.
The transmitting equipment consisted of
a standard one kilowatt deForest Oscillion
panel transmitter which is designed to work
on large ship type aerials on wave -lengths
between 500 and 1000 meters. This transkilowatt power tubes
mitter uses two
for the generation of the high frequency
currents. The plate current of these tubes
is supplied from a motor -generator set
which delivers a voltage of 1500. The
tubes are of a new type made of Pyrex
glass and the plates are of Tungsten so
that external cooling is not required. The
tuning is done by means of a variable sectional series condenser and by varying contact clips on a helix in the rear of the
panel. The circuit employed was of the
standard deForest single tuned type with
capacity coupling between the grid and plate
ing to
EXPERIMENTER.
circuits.
A special new type of modulating circuit developed by Mr. C. V. Logwood was
installed, the novelty being in that both the
grid and plate circuits of both tubes are
modulated by the voice currents at the
same time. Continuous wave telegraphy is
accomplished by making and breaking the
grid leak circuit and a modulated wave was
added by substituting with a switch, a buzzer and key in place of the microphone.
The transmitter was installed at the home
of the writer in Ossining, N. Y., and connected to a comparatively small aerial,
four wires 170 ft. in
length with a spacing of 30 inches and
with an average
height of 55 feet. A
60 -foot lead-in was
tapped off the end
nearest the station
and brought to the
tories at High Bridge, but when later, experiments were made to cause the set to
oscillate at 200 meters in order to work with
the amateurs, it was found that the constants of the circuit were such as to make
it decidedly unstable at this high frequency.
After a good deal of experimentation and
adjustment, however, fairly good results
were obtained at a wave-length of 330
meters which, it will be noted, was below
the fundamental of the aerial.
Using this wave -length during December
the writer attempted to communicate with
amateurs in the vicinity of New York and
found great difficulty in making the telegraph signals heard because of the extremely sharp tuning of the emitted wave
and also because very few amateurs listen
on wave -lengths over 250 meters.
On the 330 meter wave-length the transmitter would put but 2.4 amperes into the
aerial with an imput of 300 watts, tho a
maximum of 2.6 amperes could be obtained
kilowith an imput of approximately
watt. Owing to the unstable conditions
caused by the circuit constants the oscillator had very poor efficiency and about
January 1 the writer was surprised to have
a report that the signals were being heard
at Utica about 175 miles away. Mr. Benas
at Utica reported by radio telegraph and
by letter that the music sent out at the
Ossining station could be heard 100 feet
away from his telephone receivers when
using a two step amplifier, so that in two
instances, his friends there had used it as a
dance orchestra.
It was apparent from this report that,
altho it was difficult to get amateurs to
listen and answer the calls on 330 meters,
when the signals were once tuned in, they
were very loud. This incentive prompted
the idea of working
later at night when
the amateur interference was less, and
shortly
thereafter
Radio Station 8ER
answered a call and
reported that they
were at St. Mary's,
Ohio, more than 600
Photo Above Shows the Author, Mr. Robert

F. Gowen, the Radio Engineer Who Talked
1,500 Niles on Less Than 300 Watts, or About
One -Fifth of a Watt per Mile. He Is Shown
Holding a New De Forest 1 K.W. Transmitting Bulb or " Oscillion." Photo Below Shows
Amateur Radio Station of Mr. Trump at Topeka, Kansas. He Received the 1,500 Mlle
Radiophone Speech Sent Out by Mr. Gowen
at Ossining, New York
miles away.
Continued efforts
in adjustment of the
circuit and methods
transmitter through
a hole in a window
This aerial
pane.
has a capacitance of
approximately .0007
and a
fundamental wavelength of about 355
meters.
The ground system consisted of 84
square feet of copper sheet buried beneath the foundations of the operating room about 8
feet below the transmitting apparatus.
There were also additional grounds to
the water pipes, gas
pipes, heating apparatus, etc., of the
of calling them
brought in reports
from many stations
thruout Ohio, and
Indiana. Reports of
mirco -farad
house.
Photo from Underwood
&
Underwood
Robert K. Trump, 21, a Former Sailor Living In Topeka, Kansas, Overheard Phonograph
Music and Conversation Between Robert F. Gowen, Engineer of the DeForest Radio Telephone and Telegraph Co. and R. H. G. Matthews of Chicago
Engineer deForest Radio Tel. and Tel Co.
successful reception
of the speech were
received also from
Wakefield, Massachusetts, ' Gaffney,
South Carolina, Napanee, Ontario, about
this time, increasing
the distance to about
750 miles.
Subsequently a letter was
received from the
operator on a yacht
300 miles south of
Jacksonville, Florida,
(Cont. on page 1326)
28
MuoIlc 400 MfiRen Toy Radio

If you haven't your favorite jazz melody
and if there isn't one within 400 or 500
miles, don't let that worry you. Just send
a radio to the nearest wireless station, and
have them put the desired record on the
instrument, put your receiver in operation,
and you have it.
Everyone knows
the wireless has
proven a successful invention, but
very few know all
the uses it may be
aaDIlrec
April,
19220
Cua-renI" Ì! ican(,5:mIl4Qer
in all experimental work and the last rating

was given 992 per cent. The photo shows
L. W. Elias and the machine.
The wireless telephone is not so much
of a novelty any more, altho of course,
the apparatus is not to be had for a mere
song. However, our radio experimenters,
even the youngest, are rapidly becoming
experts in the development and construction of simple apparatus, whereby it is possible to transmit articulately, the spoken
word. In transmitting music or vocal records from a phonograph by means of the
wireless telephone,
there are several different ways in which
A new radio transmitter has been developt by L. M. Cockaday, of New York,

which operates on a direct current source
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By Means of the
Phonograph and Wireless Telephone Apparatus Here Shown,
Dance Music Was Re-
cently Transmitted
400
by
Radio to
Some of Uncle Sam's
Miles
Convalescent Soldiers.
Photo (e) by U. & U.
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New Direct Current

Wireless Transmitter
Giving a Clear Note
Equivalent to a 500Cycle Synchronous
Spark Set. Its Secret
Lies in the Use of a
Synchronous
Rotary
Spark Gap and Interrupter In Place of a
Fixed or Stationary
Spark Gap and Ordinary Interrupter.
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put to. The other day L. W. Elias, officer in

charge of the Chicago U. S. Radio Station,
was successful in sending a complete musical program to Fort Sheridan's convalescent soldiers. When he had finished, to his
surprise the operator in Detroit complimented him on his progress and advised
Mr. Elias that he had connected his instrument to a transmitter and that over 100
people had heard his music. He was also
told that everyone in Camp Grant had
heard the same program. The apparatus
necessary to transmit music in this manner
is a phonograph with records, a transmitter,
and receiver combined with a power plant
connected with batteries. The transmitter
consists of one oscillating and one modulating tube. Any amateur receiving apparatus within a radius of 400 miles can intercept the sound waves as they are sent on
undampt waves of 700 meters. The Chicago Government Radio Station ranks first
Aud1onn
As several readers have inquired about
using audions on A.C., and how to get rid
of the hum, etc., we referred these to
Mr. Elliot A. White, author of the article
"Operate Your Audion on A.C.," which
appeared in the July issue. Here are some
valuable pointers from Mr. White:
"In reply to your queries, I understand
your first paragraph to mean that the
queries concern the use of alternating current for the filament only.
"My experience has been that it is easier
to use A.C. on the plate than on the filament, because in the former case the large
condenser across the leads from the rectifier keeps the 60 -cycle hum out of the circuit. It is more difficult to use the A.C.
for the filament only, as it is sometimes
hard to get rid of the hum. However, I
have personally, as I said in the article,
used the A.C. for both plate and filament,
the air waves set up

in the phonograph
sound chamber may
be communicated or
super- imposed upon,
t el e phone transmitting
apparatus, and eventually to the antenna
from which this is liberated into space, in
the form of electro- magnetic waves in the
ether. In some cases, the microphone of
the modulating circuit of the wireless telephone outfit is placed in proximity to, or
secured tightly to, the phonograph sound box proper: In other instances, one or
more microphones of the modulating circuit have been placed in the amplifying
sound chamber of the phonograph, and this
has been found to give very good results.
A microphone placed inside the doors
or grill of the phonograph has many good
points about it. This is so for one reason
that the sounds created by the diafram of
the phonographic sound-box have not their
full vibrating timbre and sonority when
they first proceed along the tone chamber,
but receive their full sonority only after they
have entered the larger amplifying chamber.
the Wireless
of power, the system being such that it

eliminates the motor -generator now used
in connection with spark set transmitters.
In the primary circuit a rotary interrupter is used in series with the primary
coil of a step -up transformer, in combination with a synchronous rotary spark -gap
in the secondary circuit, as shown in the
diagram.
The relative positions of these two wheels
are so adjusted that as the interrupter
closes the primary circuit, the condenser
in the secondary circuit can discharge only
at its maximum capacity that is to say,
the spark -gap comes into sparking position
just as the interrupter opens the primary
circuit, thereby obtaining its highest ef;
ficiency.
The interrupter successively opens and

closes the power circuit a sufficient number
of times to obtain a clear 500 cycle tone
which is always steady.
AllIerrnaIIl>ryd CurTfen4 Aga.Iln

both separately and together, and got rid
of all noise. A friend of mine has also
had success with it on the filament alone
'as silent as a church,' he told me. I believe the Navy used toy transformers for
filament -lighting at 'Great Lakes' during
the war, and I have also heard of its use
by the Navy and by the Federal Telegraph
Company on the 'Coast,' so you see it can
be done all right. I suspect the trouble in
the cases you mention is probably due to
the Experimenters themselves, as I suggested in the article, for I by no means
claim that the device is 'fool- proof.'
"However, you might call their attention
to several important points, all of which
were treated in the paper : 1. The connection to the balancing resistance across the
filament must be properly adjusted. 2.
Connections from the tuned circuit to the
detector must be made exactly as in the
illustration ('ultraaudion' hook -up, the secondary being connected to grid and plate,
not grid and filament). 3. The tuning adjustments of inductance and capacities must
be properly made, this being delicate, as I
said. 4. Any foreign sources of interference from A.C. must be eliminated.
"If your complaining readers are correct as to 1 and 2, then their trouble is
with either 3 or 4. Concerning these, I
would refer them again to the article, particularly to the second and third paragraphs
from the end. It is, of course, also possible (I know of one such case) that the
Experimenters are getting cross -talk from
near -by power lines to antenna outside the
house, or from house wiring to the set
inside. either by capacity effect or by direct
induction. I should think you would find
it difficult to handle these problems without being on the ground."
April,
1283
1920
Outside of Bordeaux, France.

Photo at Left Shows the Famous New High- Powered Radio Station at Croix d'Hins, Which Is Located Just Receiver
Which Automatically
It Has a Total Power Rating of Some 1,000 Odd Kilowatts. Photo at Right Shows Remarkable New Radio
Delays in Answering Distress
Avoid
This
Will
Rings a Bell Signal on Ship, When Another Vessel is Sending Out an "S.O.S." Cali for Help.
Calls at Sea.
Latet Radio News

THE accompanying photograph at the
left shows the gigantic steel towers

of the powerful Lafayette radio
station of Croix d'Hins, located 15
miles outside of Bordeaux, France.
This station, one of the most powerful if
not the most powerful in the world, was
started in 1918 by the U. S. Navy to enable
radio communication to be carried on in a
positive manner at all times with the American war vessels traversing the Atlantic
Ocean and other waters.
This plant has since been turned over to
the French government by special arrangement. There are eight giant masts, each
rising 825 feet above "Mother Earth,"
which serve to support the antenna conductors.
When the armistice was signed the U.
S. Navy Radio Department discontinued
work on the stations, but the plant was
completed by the Pittsburg -Des Moines
Company for the French government.
This plant will have various types of
radio transmitting equipment, including arc
and spark sets with a total rating of some

1,000 odd kilowatts.
AUTOMATIC S.O.S. BELL SIGNAL FOR SHIPS.
The photograph presented herewith at

the right illustrates a remarkable new
radio invention which is said to pick up
and translate "S.O.S." calls from ship stations and to cause a bell to start ringing
in the station receiving the call. in other
words, when a ship in distress sounds the
S.O.S. call (the International radio signal
of distress, to which ships of all nations
pay strict attention under the present regulations, in order to try and speed toward
the disabled ship and render succor, if
possible), the radio signals, flashed out
from the vessel in distress is picked up on
the antenna of other ships within a radius
of several hundred miles and if fitted with
this apparatus the message of distress
will give an audible signal on the belt at
once, without taking a chance of whether
it will be picked up by a radio operator
New Amateur
"listening in." It has sometimes been the

case that such signals have not been heard
even by ships quite close to the vessel
calling for assistance, owing to the fact
that the operator may have been off duty
at the time, or for some other reason.
We have long advocated such an apparatus as this for receiving and interpreting
"S.O.S." calls at sea, for many reasons. It
is a simple matter now -a-days to rig up a
positive working apparatus which, by means
of sensitive relays ani amplifiers, will
serve to close a local circuit containing a
sufficiently strong battery to actuate a call
bell circuit.
The main purpose that the bell signal
in this case serves is to call the attention
of the radio operator in charge, and possibly the ship's commanding officer, to the
fact that a distress signal is being received.
When this has been done, the operator of
course "listens in" in order to receive the
further details of the distrest ship's location, which is given out by wireless both
as to latitude and longitude.
WIl1F'elle.a TEann-11.IlttIlng Set

transformer f rom
all undue current
f surges. The transformers are design-
General amateur
telegraph
wireless
stations are restricted to a transmission wavelength
of 200 meters, and
a Chicago concern
has developed and
placed on the market a wireless telegraph transmitting
set designed to give
the best results on
this short wavelength. This set includes a transformer, condenser and
oscillation transformer and a rotary
spark gap, all of
which are shown in
ed to be connected
directly to a source
of alternating current, no choke coils
being
(kilo-volt-amperes)
are made, but the
- k.v.a. transfor-
mer does not have

the magnetic shunt
control. The center
device in the illustration is the condenser. This is of
the oil - immersed
type. There are ten
terminals arranged
so that the capacity
can be varied from
0018 to .009 microfarad in single steps
the accompanying
illustration.
The transformer
is of the closed core, air -cooled type
with a double magnetic circuit. A feature of the construction is its magnetic shunt control,
which protects the
necessary.
Capacities of 1, Y,
k.v.a.
and
of .0009
micro -
farad each.
k.v.a.
Complete Amateur Radio Transmitter Desi,ned for 200 Meters Wave Length.
K.V.A.
Sizes from ' to
1
1000
One
watts
Built In at 100 per cent

power factor.
Z'
.1284
e._
April.
ve
1920
(0)n.zoE.
By EVERETT LEO DEETER.

HUNT up all your old telegraph
coils, your extra Audions (you
who have fat pocketbooks), and
prepare to settle down to business, for here's a new stunt to

try, and you can become a great "profes-
ippongua
mdsp,j
pn
ironskvmer
ton be used in poco
1770/1
of the above bet
fig
it's too small inside, and if you were to get

the "flu" your temperature might go a mile
high and it would be impossible to get it
down again- anyhow you could use it to
hang your aerial on.
Here we go-get your electrical dictionary and turn to diagrams-make sure
you know what sign represents a relay,
coherer, battery, etc., as you hardly ever see
this one, and then after six or seven hours
of real study we can almost realize the following facts:
If you focus your luminaries on diagram
No. 1 and was just to imagine that some
poor jay wireless amateur was to send out
a right smart wireless wave, which was by
decrement and other complicated mathematics of the same metric wavelength as
that of our elaborate de-cohering outfit,
why then our clumsy antenna would probably make a successful attempt and "down
the thing." Now if the wave gets thru the
coherer to the ground it causes the filings to
get close enough together to lessen their
resistance, and then things begin to hap-
Diagram Showing Connection of Coherer

and Decoherer With Polarized Relay, and
Also Special Selective Relay Fitted With
Dash -Pot.
sor," or a "wizard," by amazing people in

your own home town by the act of controlling numerous distant apparatus, simply by
pushing a button on your radio-sending
outfit.
By following the construction details
given herewith a wireless control board
which works very well can be easily constructed, and by its use the amateur can
operate any certain apparatus connected to
the board without first operating others,

thus making it a true selective control.
Now if you are done with that message
we'll go to work -yes, tell your neighbor to
come over, too, for after he sees your's
he'll want one, too. First we will see for
ourselves how the thing works.
For simplicity we will consider the use of
a coherer-the poor nut may be forced to
use one in his actual model -and if he
spent all his money for auto cable to try
out the "underground trick" but, anyhow,
a coherer works quite well. But don't let
anyone catch you when you file up a nickel
and dime for filings. And don't break up
the family thermometer for a tube, because
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Illustration of Details to Be Followed In
Constructing the Selective Radio Control
the small vessel goes under and if left

alone it always takes a little time for it to
come to the top, being partly filled with
water. Of course, if the arm is constantly
being pulled down the float is also pulled
under. Now as long as the float is not en-
Amplifying Circuit Provided With Two Audions Connected to Sensitive Polarized

Relay, Which in Turn Actuates the Special
Selective Relay Here Described.
tirely up the main circuit for the display

apparatus is open and therefore they do not
operate. But when the arm is up then the
circuit and the apparatus circuits operate
on the point the switch is left on.
Now for the conclusive diagram, No. 3.
This shows the back of the control board,
and mainly the circular switch. Now supposing we had No. 1 of the switch connected to an electric train or street car, No. 3
to a little windmill, No. 4 to an electric
light, No. 5 to an electric cannon, etc. We
want to cause No. 1, the train, to operate.
We push our transmitting button four times
and toot-toot she goes. Now we are asked
to shoot our cannon, No. 5, and all we have
to do is to push the button four more times
and bang! For No. 10 we would now push
five times, etc.
Two and ten on the switch are stop blanks,

while 16 can be a place where they all operate, making the segment of eleven narrow
strips, not touching one another and connected to all other segments of the switch.
Retire for the night now, for you'll need
all kinds of strength and ability, as well as
Relay Here Described.
When the platinum (if you're rich)

points close, of course the juice goes thru
and makes the magnet pull down the arm
which operates the sprocket wheel, in turn
operating the commutator or the switch
controlling the display apparatus. If you
think you now understand all you've been
over, proceed to diagram No. 4 also. If
you don't proceed anyway -it'll do your
think tank good. When the arm is down
it makes contact to J, and this gives a little
stingy juice to the bell, what there is of it,
which hits the glass tube of the coherer and
knocks the : lings apart, ready for another
"jazz." But this is not all the clumsy brass
arm did-the string seen between C and M
pulls the arm B, and out at the end where
the plunger R is connected at O there is
quite an emotion as the arm drops thru a
long arc, which may be varied by sliding
the arm at N.
The plunger R is connected to a small
air -tight vessel partly filled with water, and
this floats upon the water enclosed in the
larger tin can P (see Fig. 5 -A). Now when
the arm come,. down the "ship sinks," and
pen.
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By 6cGPAREISfla
C. E. Radio, U. S. N.
THERE seems to
be a marked tendency among radio experimenters of

the present to lay their hands on the
new developments in radio apparatus, particularly as applied to various receiving instruments which have been
brought out during the World War. From
what I can gather from various publications and 1 tters from the Amateurs, a
great demand has arisen for the most modem of apparatus. This demand reflects a
spirit of progressiveness in the Amateur,
it is true, but there is a limit to all things,
and the adoption of all the new and fancy
frills which are being described from time
to time will lead to a limit where the distressing facts are all too plain-that the
little old stuff that we used to "gather in"
the signals with, was far superior to seventy -five per cent of the war apparatus.
I have had considerable experience with
the majority of apparatus which was
brought out during the period of hostilities,
having used practically all the latest developments under typical operating conditions, and for the benefit of those whose
longings for "Navy VT's," "loop antenna,"
etc., are getting the better of common sense,
let me outline a few of the results I have
obtained with new and marvelously efficient ( ?) war radio apparatus.
AERIALS.
Let us start at the top, this being the

aerial, of course. Before 1917 we Amateurs
used the good old inverted "L" or "T"
type, flat -top antenna of the four- or six wire size, elevated from thirty to fifty feet,
and we got GOOD results. A certain
Portland (Ore.) Amateur, regularly communicated with a station in Los Angeles
and with a Reno (Nev.) station also.
Chicago Amateurs were heard up to one
thousand miles, and the east coast stations
were easily heard in the Middle West and
South. All this with one K.W. or less and
on two hundred meters! In my tests, I
used an antenna of the typical flat -top "T"
type, three hundred feet long and eighty
feet high, four wires, and with a two -kilowatt, five hundred-cycle set, was able to
cover twenty -two hundred (2,200) miles
at night on six hundred meters, at sea.
Substituting a loop antenna of four hundred ninety (490) meters natural period,
I obtained a radiation of seventeen amperes, but my signals were only heard at a
distance of two hundred seventy miles.
The vessel with which I carried out these
tests used an Amateur tubular audion bulb,
with no amplification ; with his Navy VT
he could hear me very faintly at two hundred forty miles. I made several similar
tests, elevating the loop, etc., but on no
occasion was I able to do better. On the
other hand, the loop antenna for receiving
is not at all bad. I picked up signals from
Lands End, England (GLD). at seventeen
hundred miles, with one tubular bulb
(eleven hundred miles on a Navy VT),
and merely placing the loop on the bridge.
The chief objection to the loop antenna for
reception in Amateur Stations is its marked
directive effects. In some cases this would
be an advantage, in cutting out interferences, or receiving signals from but one
general direction and its opposite, but very
few Amateurs will care to limit their receiving possibilities to but one or two points
of the compass. The loop invites experimentation, but don't be so all -fired het up
about adopting it without trial in your proposed station. Stick to the flat -top, inverted
"L" or "r' types -they aren't going to be
back numbers at all.
AS TO APPARATUS.
Now as to the apparatus itself. A new

form of layer wound inductance has made
its dbut, in the form of pancake loading
coils, and is also being embodied in several
forms of loose -couplers. The coils have
given good results, when used as loading
inductances and coupler coils, and have the
advantage of taking up much less space
than the old type of cylindrical tube windings. It is also easily possible to incorporate these coils into panels, which are very
popular, and make a neat job of it. The
layer wound coil
wound with an offset
winding (honeycomb coils) is a distinct step
forward, and full credit should be given it.
Experimenters, in buying, however, should
demand this offset winding which makes
the coils what they are-extremely neat,
compact and efficient little units.
A word now about capacity coupled tuners. These were tried on various vessels,
and in shore stations, but were found to be
impractical for spark reception, due to their
extreme sharpness of tuning, which made
them poor "stand -bys." In certain cases
the tone of the incoming signal was also
distorted by them. For these reasons their
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Wireless in Modern Aircraft.
By A. J. Hall
The Priess Loop Set, Part IV.
By W. J. Henry
New Facts About the Nauen
Station.
By Dr. A. Gradenwitz
Aladdin's Lamp.
By C. S. Wolfe
A Resonant Transmitter.
By W. S. Lemmon, E.E.
Easily Constructed Radio Mast.
By E. L. Deeter
adoption as spark receivers never became

very popular, but in long wave undampt
wave receivers they seem well adapted, for
their sharpness is an advantage there, and
it also seems that the more variables that
can be crowded into an arc set the better
it works. Capacity tuners, however, will
never become popular in Amateur Stations.
The heart of the receiving station draws
our attention next. I have heard more
Amateurs whine, sigh and express extravagant promises of reimbursement to anyone
who would get them a Navy VT than desires for all the other new apparatus that
has appeared. The prevailing opinion seems
to be that for sensitiveness they are marvelous-unequaled Where this idea ever
found root is puzzling, in the face of the
fact that the majority of tubes developed
for war purposes were, and are, miserably
poor bulbs in comparison with the tubular
bulbs we had formerly used. This applies
to their use as detectors -they make good
amplifier bulbs when used with 150 to 300
volts, plate current -but where will the
modern Amateur, even, get that voltage,
D.C.? Batteries are out of the question,
!
as is a motor -generator. We are mostly

concerned with detectors, however. The
war tubes were designed to combine ruggedness, reliable operation in inexperienced
hands, with a fair degree of sensibility. In
the last named requirement they did not
exceed the specifications in the least. It is
true that such bulbs require no variation of
plate voltage and will operate over a moderate range of filament current fairly well,
but the Navy VT's all require a plate volt age of from seventy to one hundred and
fifty volts. I have used probably two hundred different Navy tubes at times, and have
yet to find one which equals the little old
"tubulars" for sensitiveness. A new bulb
has recently come into prominence, which I
have had no opportunity of trying out as
yet, but which seems to be "the goods,"
as it is becoming popular with a great number of Amateurs. It requires but a low
plate voltage not required to be varied
and seems to promise much. Until I have
had the opportunity of trying it out, however, I shall stick to the old "tubulars" for
all around satisfactory work. I have tried
the new bulbs as amplifiers, by doubling the
plate voltage -sometimes even tripling
and have found them to be excellent for
that purpose, better in fact than the tubular
bulbs, which are poor amplifier tubes.
All this crabbing would naturally lead up
to the question of what I would consider a
good Amateur Set for receiving. My idea
it-
after testing, planning, designing and

trying all manner of sets for the past two
years, to hav a short wave set, with a
range of one hundred and fifty to six hundred and fifty meters, to include both Amateur and Commercial marine waves, and
get good efficiency on each. The circuits
should by all means be regenerative, using
one of the old tubular bulbs. If it is desired to amplify these sets, I would suggest a two -step amplifier using the new
Amateur tubes. The transformers should
perhaps be purchased until more data is
published regarding their construction than
is now available.
The telephones should
preferably be of the mica diafram type, or
if the price is prohibitive a good two or
three thousand ohm, double headset.
Besides the above set, all well equipt Amateur Stations should have a long wave set,
capable of receiving the undampt wave stations. While personally I do not care for
the sustained wave system, it seems to be
the coming thing, so we must all keep up
with progress. An efficient arc receiver
would comprise a long wave coupler, capable of receiving waves up to ten thousand meters at least, two or three variables,
mica diafram phones, and a good oscillating
bulb with a modern oscillating circuit. A
very good undampt wave set can be made
from the unit inductances now on the market, layer wound as before described. Several reliable concerns are putting out such
inductances in neat individual cabinets of
varying wavelengths, so that the inductances can be placed next to each other
and used as primary and secondary coils,
the coupling by changing the disbetween the coils. If a receiver such
as this is properly made, very good results
will be had with an antenna of one single
wire, several hundred feet long, which need
not be more than thirty feet high.
A good ground connection is vitally important in every case. Solder your ground
lead to a water pipe, and make it of heavy
cable. In addition, ground to everything
within reach -steam pipes, etc. It all helps.
If care is exercised in the construction
and installation of equipment, and instru(Continued on page 1330)
is,
tance
1286
April,
1920
ITAVe
y JAY G. HOBSON
THERE are several kinds of razor
blade sharpeners on the market. Few

of them have met with considerable
success because they really sharpened
as claimed. However, all of the
various designs require the user to turn a
small crank to operate the stropping element. It consumes enough time preparing
one's face for the trying ordeal without
having to stand around cranking the sharpener until the razor blade is ready to
shave.
Why not construct an automatic razor
blade stropper to be fastened on the water
faucet as illustrated, one that will run when
the water is turned on so that your razor
blade will be nice and sharp by the time
you are ready to shave. An efficient sharpener of this kind could easily be made as
shown, with a light metal case, two round
stroppers connected by small gears and
operated by a little water wheel enclosed
in part of the sharpener case. The blade
can be arranged to strop on both of the
revolving strops thru an eccentric connection with the blade holder. When you
wish to shave fasten the sharpener to the
water faucet, place the razor blade in the
holder, turn on the water and by the time
you are ready the blade will be in fine
cutting condition to make shaving a pleasure. Every user of the modern safety
razor would appreciate an improvement of
this kind and gladly discard all other types
for this design.
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SPIGOT
SMALL
STROPS
DRIVE
GEAR
WATER
WHEEL
BO
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LARGE DRNEGEAR
AUTOMATIC RAZOR STROPPER"W' WATER OUfl.Et
And
Speaking
of
Shaving, -Why
Cannot
Someone Give Us a Low - Priced Automatic,

Safety -Razor Blade Sharpener Which Could
Be Connected to the Kitchen Spigot.
A
Small Cheap Water Motor, Specially Designed for the Purpose, Would Rotate the
Strop Wheels In Apple-Pie Order. Mr. Hobson Guarantees to Sell One of These to
Every User of a Safety Razor In the United
States and Foreign Countries, -the Bolshevik Regions Not Included!
During the influenza epidemic eating in

public restaurants and cafs was rather a
risky thing to do because public eating
places are not careful in cleaning dishes
and cups before using them again. In
drinking hot drinks from the common
cup people place the rim of the cup between their lips and draw the liquid into
their mouths. This is a very easy way to
catch the "flu" or some other contagious
disease, of which there are many. To
avoid this possible exposure a small celluloid (or even paper) lip and mouth protector could be made like that shown.
It should be made to fit the rim of the
cup snugly so that the contents of same
could not run under and out upon the
user's clothes. A little sanitary invention
of this kind would undoubtedly meet with
approval by thousands of folks who are
particular about their health and desirous
of avoiding any exposure to others' carelessness.
CAP
DISPEN SER
THUMB SCREW
VALVE
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TOOTH POWDER DISPENSER
Instead of Losing About Six Tooth -Paste

Tube Caps Every Month and Doing an Interminable Amount of Cussing About the
Paste That Went to Waste or Soiled Your
Clothes, -Why Not Invent a Neat and Cheap
Tooth Powder Dispenser Like This? Zip
Turn the Thumb Valve and -Presto! You
Get Just the Proper Quota of Tooth Powder
on Your Tooth - Brush.
The average person becomes so adjusted

to the present tooth brush and tube of
paste or can of powder now in use that no
thought of an improvement in this line
seems to appear.
However, on second
consideration we can easily see that
is
there
great inconvenience and waste
in the seemingly efficient dentifrices of
today. For example, remember the time
you made a hurried trip to some distant
point via Pullman, throwing necessities into
your traveling bag as you ran out of the
door. Recall how you had to stand on
your head in the berth trying to find your
tooth paste before retiring, and how very
evasive it was. Finally you gave up hopes
of finding it and went disgustedly to bed?
On other occasions, at home when you were
late for work and forgot to put the cover
back on the tube of paste which was hard
and useless when you returned home that
evening? These experiences are a common
kind to most of us. To overcome these
difficulties and add to the pleasures of living I thought of what should prove to he
a very welcome departure in every bathroom, every Pullman car, every public wash
room and every place where dentifrices are
used. As shown in the illustration my conception is in the form of a neat metal or
porcelain bracket to which is secured a
round tube or can embracing a removable
LIP MOUTH GUARD
First
on theiProgram of Things to Invent,

We Have What Mr. Hobson Suggests for a
"Lip and Mouth Protector." Afraid of
Catching the "Flu" or Some One of 57 Odd
Fevers? Carry a Little Lip Protector With
You and Slip It Over the Edge of the Cup
Where the Nasty Little Germs Are Wont to
Sleep Until You Drink, and Then, Good
Night! Yes, We SHOULD Have Them!
Copyright- 1020 -by Jay G. Hobson.
top to allow for refilling the same, and at

the bottom end would be arranged a small
measuring cup or valve operated by the
thumb and forefinger of one hand while
the other hand held the toothbrush under
the spigot to receive an exact amount of
powder or paste sufficient for one good
cleaning of the teeth.
As will be seen a little device of this
kind installed in each bathroom, or Pullman car, would not only economize in the
use of the preparation, but it would always
be handy and ready for use of each member
of the family. Having it ever before them
with this kind of a slogan printed thereon,
"USE ME TWO TIMES A DAY AND
I'LL KEEP THE DENTIST AWAY,"
would remind them of the importance of
keeping their teeth clean. An attractive
device of this description would sell to
most every home and probably be used
extensively by some large dentifrice manu-
facturer.
Watching a fat gentleman bending over
three times trying to reach his shoes to
tie a broken or loosened string, while somewhat amusing, suggested an idea for a
needed improvement in shoe laces. The
present kind in universal use is really unsatisfactory for many reasons.
To begin with it is forever coming untied, wears out quickly, breaks just when
we don't want it to, and causes flat feet
because there is practically no give in the
string when we walk, run or jump. Raising up on the toes in walking causes the
strings to force the arch of the foot downward instead of allowing it to follow the
motion forward as is natural when walking
barefoot.
METAL SHOE LACE

Ever Try to Lace Your Shoes In a Hurry?
This Includes Ladies and Gentlemen, as Well
as the Little Folks.
Here's the Author's
Suggestion: Do Away With the Everlasting
String Laces Which Are Forever Losing
Their Tips, and, Instead (When They Are
Manufactured), Get a Dozen or So of These
Spring Lacers,-and Besides, Your Foot Can
Really Have Free Movement In This Expansible Shoe Top! Not Bad, Eh?
So an improvement in shoe laces is in

One that seems practical to me
could be made of a small, flat, adjustable
bar or strip of metal with a stout coil
spring concealed inside. This little bar
is cut in the diddle to allow for expansion
and adjustment to shoe. At either end
of this flat, hollow bar would be a blunt
hook or catch "U" shaped and only large
enough to fit into the eyes of both sides of
the shoe as illustrated.
The small coil spring pulling on both
ends of the flat bar would force the shoe
sides together and hold them as securely
as a shoe string, but, in addition, this improvement would allow for a free movement of the foot when walking, thereby
preventing much of the present day foot
troubles. A practical article of this kind
should sell rapidly and be adopted by
the large shoe manufacturers.
(This is the third article by Mr. Hobson.
The next one will appear in the May
order.
issue.- EnnoR.)
Arril,
1920
Theatrical Appliances.
(No. 1,324,680, issued to Langdon

McCormick.)
This patent relates to a method
of producing illusionary effects
whereby ships and other objects are
1 sage
Wireless Transmitter.
(No. 1,315,197, Issued to Earl C.
Hanson.)
This patent is the latest for transmission of energy by means of electrostatic and electro- magnetic induction. It employs audio frequency
radiation in contrast to the common
radio frequency methods now used.
It is extremely simple and can be
controlled to such en extent that detection beyond the distance predetermined is impossible (according to the
inventor). It consists of two reactances into which are placed iron
cores; for sending a telephone coil is
used, shunted by a variable con
denser. The transmitter and battery
are tikewis shunted by variable e.ondei,sers. Thus, the direct current,
practically constant, induces no cur
rent in the high tension winding, but
-
made to rise and increase or decrease in size and move forward at

the same time to give the effect of
the ship or other feature moving toward the front of the stage. A
large number of moving platforms
cause the illusion effect to be more
pronounced, at the same time a
wider sea area toward the rear of
the ship is effected by gradually elevating the waves, causing the illusion effects to take on the aspects
found in nature. In actuality, the
ship moves forward for about 10 ft.
Electric Furnaces.
(No. 1,324,156, issued to Feline Jacoviel lo. )

This latest invention is an electrical furnace wherein a series of
grafite crucibles are imbedded in
powdered coal or gratte, thus connecting them in series. The pipe or
conduit communicates with the upper portion of every crucible. Molten
metal can b poured from all of
the crucibles at the same time. Great
heat is produced in this furnace because of the relatively high and low
conductivity of the alternate layers
forming the grafite crucibles and
the intermediate packing.
1287
Eliminating Undesired
Vibrations.
(No. 1,319,521, issued to R. A.

Fessenden and F. H. Leslie.)
This patent is for sound producing bodies, such as diaframs, and its
object is to suppress any desired ex-
tent of vibration frequencies which

are not wanted. The presence of
natural vibrations are very objectionable even in telephony, as a result of which the higher tones of
the voice are unduly strengthened
tho still permitting speech. If used
in submarine signaling they would
not transmit articulate speech, so
by properly proportioning self -induction, resistance and capacity in
the circuit, the amount of sound absorbed can be regulated and the
diafram then made to vibrate substantially correctly over an entire
range of frequencies, whereby clear,
sharp, articulate speech can be
heard for distances of five miles, via
the absorption system, whereas, prior
to this only indistinct sounds were
1,324,336,
heard.
Metal Cutting.
when the operator speaks into the

transmitter he varies the resistance,
and a considerable potential is imprest between the antenna and the
ground. For receiving, a similar
iron core reactance is used and is
either connected directly thru a receiver or thru a vacuum tube for
the purpose of amplification.
(No. 1,324,337, issued to R. E.

Chapman and J. W. Kirk.)
A very clever patent was recently
granted to the above mentioned individuals on apparatus for cutting
metals. It is of the simple arcforming type in which a carbon
connected to a generator creates an
arc at its point of contact with the
metal to be cut. The center of this
carbon, however, has a hollow bore
(No. 1,316,485, issued to Fremont

S. Kay.)
This patent is very clever and
novel. Heretofore, in order to remove connectors from storage batteries and the like, it has been neces-
(No. 1,311,384, issued to William F.

Drew.)
This does not relate to calculating
machines only, but includes typewriters and the like. We shall describe the adding machine herewith.
It consists essentially of ten solenoids which operate the adding machine levers. In addition, there are
ten more solenoids connected to a
tier of the same number of plates of
slidable nature in the series. When,
therefore, electrical contact is made
by means of the stylus, two solenoids are immediately actuated. One
draws the slidable plate of that series
so that the plunger can only descend
a definite distance and the other
system causes the plunger to descend.
the vessel, gripping it firmly. As

many of these chains are lowered as
required in each case; the second
chain only does the lifting, the first
chain going under the bow and acting as the gripper.
A float actuated by hydraulic elevators then raises the vessel. As
will be seen, the vessel for the sucsuccessful operation should be in an
upright position or nearly so.
Telescopic Tower.
Battery Connector Remover.
Electric Keyboard.
Ship Salvaging.
issued to J. T.
Rreneman.)
This is another of those patents
which are planned to salvage sunken
wealths and treasures. The patent.
however, has the drawback in that
the exact position of the ship must
be known before further action can
take place. Essentially, it consists
of a method of dragging a cable
over the bed of the river until it
comes under the stern of the vessel.
This cable is then replaced by a
heavy chain. Immediately another
chain is thrown across the top of
the vessel so that it will lie perhaps
100 feet forward of the position of
the first chain obtained. This second
chain is connected with the first
chain by a block which allows itself
to slide downward only. When, therefore, the second chain is tightened,
it forms a complPè harness around
(No.
IC.P1
running thru it, to which is connected an oxygen supply tank; thus

when the arc is started and the metal
commences to fuse, advantage is
taken of the better cutting qualities
under the oxygen stream. This arc,
according to its inventor, will operate as efficiently under water as
above.
(No. 1,325,053, issued to F. C. Steidle.)

This invention is the latest in telescopic towers for submarines and
other uses. It is absolutely watertight and air -tight and its telescopic
means is acconiplisht by comprest
Submarine Boat Detector.
sary to destroy the posts by drilling

This device, however,
them out.
leaves the center post intact removing only the connector without injury to the original posts. It should
meet with favor with all storage
battery repair men. The tool when
operated cuts two concentric zones.
The inner cutter clears the solder
from the periferal surface of the
posts of the battery, while the outer
cutter clears the solder from the

wall of the eye on the connecting
strip. In this way the post and connecting strip are completely saved.
(No. 1,321998, Issued to Giovanni

Emanuele Elia.)
It consists of a long rubber hose
about one -half inch in diameter
suspended from a series of small
buoys at a predetermined depth.
This rubber hose may be quite long
and as it is comparatively light, does
not cause any great resistance upon
the progress of the ship. Should the
submarine now run into the hose
and cut it, the sudden outflow of
water which has been pumped into
it under pressure, would be instantly noticeable on the vessel's indicating apparatus.
air. Valves opera ing on a pressure

principle cause the first and lowermost section to rise, carrying with it
all the other sections. When this
reaches its extreme height the increase in air pressure causes the
valve to open and the second section rises, and so on until the last is
completely elevated. It also carries
with it guys so that there is no danger of it being damaged during the
process of extension or when storms
are encountered at sea.
1288
Apri'],
1920
WITHWAMATEUR
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preferred to light-toned ones. We pay $5.00 each month for the best photo or photos and $2.00 to eac91 "Honorable Mention." Address the Editor, "With
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PAUL WALTER
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SUBMIT herewith, photos of my Electrical and Chemical Laboratory. I do my own photo work and produce many odd effects
with my home made apparatus and am equipt to enlarge, reduce
and copy anything from an atom to a battleship. I manufacture a
glue which will mend anything but a broken heart.
I have a motor -driven chuck upon which I turn up many things to
be used in the making of coils, apparatus, instruments, etc. It will
drill holes in any metal or wood and can be used to polish brass
parts. This little tool is really necessary to any laboratory. A goad
asset for a well conducted shop, is to have everything arranged is
sonic systematic order, so that when a, fellow is working or has an
idea. he will not be discouraged or tempted to be careless because the
tool he wants is not handy, or the piece of material he needs is way
down under some transformer iron. I have everything labeled and
in plain view. Each screw and washer has its special place, in my
shop and I don't have to stop my work to look for an article. The
result is that I get something done, because things are where they
suggest their use. -Paul Walter, 2725 Main St., Ocean Park, Cal.
HONORABLE MENTION, JOHN G. SPOTTON
$2.00 PRIZE PAID EACH "HONORABLE MENTION"
IWISH to show in this article what can be accomplisht in a
limited working space. I only have a small corner in a room.
The apparatus that are permanently mounted, are either on the
Contest
table, the wall, or the switchboard. On the latter, I have a lamp.
battery -fan, ignition coil, telegraph apparatus, "shocker" and a
motor. These are controlled by a selective switch. The `juice" is
obtained, at present, from dry cells. These are controlled by
rheostats and by a switch, so that any number may be used.
A good feature, is the combination telephone -telegraph line. For
telegraphy, I now use a key (mounted on the table) Radiotone, condenser, and Pony receiver, while at the other end, a friend. has a
regulation Morse telegraph outfit. For phoning, I use a micropii ne,
designed from one shown in the December, 1916, EXPERIMENTER
phone and bell. On a shelf is an arc light run by 110 volt A.C.
current with a water resistance and fuses. I amnow working on a
detachable part, which can be fitted over the carbons, converting a
into a furnace when necessary. An eight point needle drop annunciator shown .on the wall in the centre is very useful for connection
with burglar and door mat alarms, thermostats, etc.
My workshop is equipt with all the necessary wood and metalworking tools. I also have a foot-power lathe which is not shown. The
chemicals of my Electro- Chemical department are kept on a shelf in
my desk. I don't need a very big outfit as about all I do in this line,
is to experiment with wet cells, accumulators, electro-plating, photography and occasionally I do some analysis. The upper shelf holds my
library of about 30 technical books. What I value the most, tin. are
my back numbers of the ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER, from November, 1913, to date. This indeed is a library in itself, and has been
my "guiding star" since I first got to be an "Electrical Bug."
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JUST can't get over wondering
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on turning out this sheet month
after month," Bender queried while
loafing -beg pardon-leafing over
the latest issue of the EXPERIMENTER.
"And," he continued, "it beats old Dutch,
how Gernsback and his editorial wild cats
manage to make each issue better than the
one ahead of it. Where do you think that
bunch gets all those ideas from anyway ?"
Jazz 'grew contemplative as he looked
wistfully over the broad expanse of the
Pacific as it lapt its way toward 'Frisco
Bay. He pulled a few times at his cigar
before he replied with a sigh:
"Tell you the truth, gents, I'd rather live
in my quiet two by four in Oakland than
publish that nerve -racking, man -eating
shark that goes by the name of ELECTRICAL
EXPERIMENTER, better known as Sperry
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slightest sense of humor he'd call it ELECTlucnl, Exterminator, because it sure will
exterminate him sooner or later. No man
can live and remain a human fountain of
ideas day in and day out like that bird, and
not dry up in the end.
`But you boys want to know how it's
trical Experimenter."
did every month -well, here goes,, anyway:
"Last month when I went East I made
it my business to call upon the E. E. outfit,
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Caesar.
"Some fine Monday A. M. I trot down
to Fulton St. -which is the dead line of the
town-and pull up short at "Information,"
where I throw anchor.
"'Want to see the Editor. Name's Jazz
Stokes from Oakland, Cal., I mentions to
the cutie behind the switchboard. A couple
hours later when she finally finds time to
give me the once over, she smiles expensively at me and asks what in blazes I
want. I repeat the info.
"Oh, yes,' she chirps languishly, manicuring her nose with a powder -puff all the
while, 'I remember you now, you are the
Stoker from Coakland, Oklahoma. Excuse me for letting you wait a bit longer.
Now what's your name ?'
"I repeat it a few times over.
"Age ?' she asks next.
"Uncertain," I piurmur.
"Was your mother married ?'
"Not yet, she's a widow !"
"'Have you ever been in jail ?'
"Sure thing, that's my profession."

" 'How comer
"Well, you see, I am Warden of the jail
of Berkeleigh, Cal.!"
" 'That's fine. Now then on what business would you like to see the Sultan ?'
"Just a friendly visit."
"Just then the house bell clanged out
the noon hour, and as I had no appointment with the All- Highest, I saw it would
be useless to get into his Wigwam and
next to his skin. So I invited the 'Info Switchboarder' out for lunch, as a ruse.
An invitation for lunch always works in
New York. So while she got her hat and
put on her outdoor complexion, I slipt
by the gate, vaulted a couple of brass
railings and made a home run for the
sanctum labeled 'Editor.' I pussyfooted
in cautiously-which, however, wasn't at
all necessary. There were three or four
people in his office and no one paid
the slightest attention to me, so I sat
The illustrious 'Idea- Incubator'
down.
was very, very busy with a couple of
artists, his secretary, the phone, the radiophone and his managers. During the half
hour I was in that editorial bug-house, I
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April,
1920
The "Oracle" is for the sole

of all electrical experimenters. Questions
be
answered here for the benefit of benefit
all but only matter of sufficient interest will b e puwill
blisht
Rules under which questions will be answered:
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3. Sketches, diagrams, etc., must be on separate
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4. If a quick answer is desired by mail, a nominal charge of 25 cents is made for each question. If
questions entail considerable
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to the fee before such questions
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LAMP BULB A LEYDEN JAR.

(1039)
writes
H. Edwards, Deseronto, Ont.,
A. 1. While experimenting with Geissler tubes, made from burnt -out lamp bulbs
as described in a former issue of your
magazine, I noticed an odd thing which I
cannot account for. The bulb used was
an ordinary Tungsten lamp. The glass rod
in the center of the bulb had been shattered in some way, so I covered the glass
tip with wax and made a Geissler tube out
of it. The tube was attached to a static
machine capable of giving a twelve-inch
spark, by a wire which was wound around
the brass end of the bulb and attached to
the positive terminal of the machine. A
short gap was left between the two terminals of the static machine and after operating for a few ,minutes I pushed the terminals of the machine together and disconnected the bulb. Then I picked up the
bulb without touching the brass end. When
I was about fifteen feet from the static
ipachine I happened to drop my finger onto
the brass end to the bulb and drew a spark
about one inch long from it. Rather surprised I carried the bulb downstairs to the
science teacher of the school and showed
her the spark. This time it was less strong
and after two or three attempts it became
totally discharged. The bulb was certainly
a Leyden jar, and my hand was one coating. What had formed a second coating to
hold a charge on the inside of that exhausted bulb?
1.
Undoubtedly you are not aware
that the charge is retained in the glass,
and not in the coating of the Leyden jar.
The highly ionized air in the electric bulb
acted as an internal coat, and induced the
glass to take on the charge inside, whereas
the outside coat, viz., your hand, was connected to the earth thru your body.
To prove that the charge is retained in
the glass and not in the coat is very easily
demonstrated in a separable Leyden jar.
The Leyden jar is charged, the coats carefully removed by an insulating rod, and
these, when away from the glass, may be
touched with impunity. Should the fingers
be placed on both sides of the glass, a
slight crackling is soon heard, showing that
there is some charge, which escapes very
slowly. However, if the coats are now replaced and a discharger brought in contact
with the inside and outside coats, a sharp
crack is heard and a spark flies across the
discharge ball and the knob on top, the
metal coatings acting as good conductors
of the charge.
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MAKING PERMANENT STEEL

MAGNETS.
(1040) M. F. McCormick, Crown Point,

Ind., asks the "Oracle":
Q. 1. Several questions regarding permanent steel magnets ; these bar magnets
measuring 4x/x3 inches.
A. 1. Regarding first question, would
say that a compound steel magnet made
up of two separate magnets, would be ap-
proximately twice as strong as either cine

of the single units, as you mention; presuming that both South and both North
poles are placed together, i. e., both S.S.
poles at one end, and the N.N. poles at the
other.
Answering your second question as to
the form of magnetizing coil required,
would say in the first place alternating current cannot be used, and direct current
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ASCIENTIFIC magazine is supposedly
notorious for its dry reading. Still
we flatter ourselves that the ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER can hold your
attention without your yawning too frequently.

Of course you like to laugh-we all do.
Sometimes we make you smile while you
peruse the EXPERIMENTER. Perhaps
sometimes you laugh out loud-at some
of our "preposterous ideas" which we
print here. And then of course the joke's
on us, because we were real serious!
Now it occurred to us that we would
like to print a column of real, original
jokes every month, but here's the hook:
The oke must be a SCIENTIFIC JOKE.
No, this is no joke, we mean it!
Anyone can print or re -print jokes, but
we want them with a dose of science. So,
till further notice we will pay $3.00 as a
monthly lst prize for the best joke, and
$1.00 for each other one we print.
So you will know what we mean with a
"Scientific Joke," we print one here,
which we purloined from the "Baltimore
American ":
LOGICAL. -"I want some good
current literature."
"Here are some books on electric lighting."
Now of course, our readers can do much
better than this. So let's wait and see.
One reader can submit as many jokes as
he pleases. Even if it is old the joke is
not necessarily barred or condemned.
There is one rule however: The joke must
not be too technical; in other words, it
must be readily understood by anyone.
Not more than 100 words can be used.
dome by means of a telegraph key or switch

operated by hand, or else a motor or slow
speed vibrating relay may be rigged up to
produce this effect.
In regard to the hardening of the steel,

will say you will do well to look up some
good machinists' handbook on this subject,
but in brief, it has been found that the
steel used should preferably be a tungsten
steel, and that it should be glass -hard in
order to have the greatest retentivity for
magnetism. It is common practice for
ordinary magnets to heat the steel to a
cherry red and then to plunge the bar in
water; thus quenching it quickly and producing a practically glass -hard temper.
We take pleasure in recommending one of
the best books on magnets, i. e., the work
entitled "Experiments in Electricity and
Magnetism," by Sylvanus Thompson, which
our "Book Department" can supply for
$1.65 prepaid. A very good book covering
tempering of steel, etc., is entitled "Rogers'
Machinists' Guide," which can be supplied
at $2.15 prepaid.
ONE OR TWO TELEPHONE RECEIVERS BEST?

(1041) A. Jarrett, New York, N. Y., in-
quires
Q. 1. Which is the best, the single Bell
Use only one side of the paper.
Address
SCIENTIFIC JOKE EDITOR,

Care of this publication.
either from a lighting circuit, or else from

storage or dry cells must be utilized for
the purpose. A very powerful magnetizing
coil may be made as follows for service in
conjunction with this battery current. A
brass tube, 54 inch inside diameter and
measuring three inches in length, may be
wound with 20 layers of No. 22 B. & S.
gage, S.C.C. magnet wire. The magnet
steel may be plaped in the coil one after
another and the current switched on, after
each magnet is placed within the tube, the
steel bars being magnetized from % to
minute. The strongest magnetization has
been found to take plac in such steel bars
when the current thru the coil is interrupted at short intervals. This may be
telephone receiver or this, together with an

auxiliary watch case receiver.
A. 1. With respect to the efficiency of
the watch-case telephone receiver, which is
commonly used and supplied by telephone
companies in different cities in order to
hear long distance calls more plainly, etc.,
would advise :
There is no doubt about it that the addition of the watch -case receiver helps very
considerably. As regards the electrical
efficiency, you can rest assured that there
is invariably sufficient current at the telephone terminals to operate at least two receivers connected on parallel. It is the
same as connecting two lamps on parallel.
Twice the current is required for two telephone receivers as would be required for
one, but the editor of this department has
never noticed any depreciation of the speech
reproduction when the multiple phone is
connected, when either receiver is tested
separately. Secondly the hearing efficiency
is increased by this arrangement of two receivers, as has been proven in wireless work,
where two receivers are always used.
In the first place, as you state, there ismore sound produced, but the main and
most important thing is that you in this
manner bring into operation the combined
hearing forces of the two ears; which co -act
in a very much better manner when they
are both acted upon simultaneously by the
same sound, as compared to the action when
one ear is affected by the sound only. Besides, as you state, there is always trouble
due to external noises affecting the open
or unused ear.
April,
1920
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1292
By EVERSON WESTERLING
(Continued from page 1289)

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" 'Weather Bureau,' yells the High -Chief
into the phone. He gets it in a couple of
seconds. 'What sort of weather will we
have next month ?' he bawls. 'Rain, all
month, you say? O. K. Fine.'
" 'The cover will be sky blue,' as he
turns to Brown. 'As it will rain all next
month, people will be tickled to see a blue
sky, even if it's only on a cover. We ought
to sell a couplo thousand copies on that
argument alone!'
"'Fine,' says the paint cuckoo. 'Now
what's the subject ?'
The Grand -Duke scratches his head
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telegraph instrument.
Just then a nice
ripe tomato comes sailing in thru the open
window and lands squarely on the Mikado's
bean.
Quick like a flash he turns to
Brown, and chuckling gleefully says, while
blotting up the ketchup with a few blotters:
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working in a field ; paint him red -like
this tomato sauce. Good combination
red steel monster with a skyblue background. People will be interested in him,
now that help is scarce. Open his back
to show the propelling machinery inside of
him -ah yes-wireless aerial on his head
and in foreground radio man with a lot
of wireless junk, who directs the automaton's movements in the field.'
"Fine, wonderful," we all applauded.
"That's going to be some cover," yelped
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you see, tomato -auTOMATOn-and where
does a tomato grow? In a field! There
you have it, automaton working in field.
Next !'
Just then Secor, the associate Editor
comes in with a bang thru the loud talking
telephone on the wall : X ! ?! - .... - --!xx
Wow-R- rhrrrrrr...what iii thunder do
you mean by adding 8 more pages to this
infernal sheet, ain't we got enough now...
possibly do
r- r- r --R -RR X ! ? **
MORE. Killing myself now. Absolutely
quit right
Impossible to do more work
here
ah- wow wow -whizz -bang"and he's gone !"
"But the High- Priest thru it all keeps
on smiling; it seems he likes those gentle
No sooner has the enraged
outbursts.
editorial bird ceased fluttering than the
Grand -Turk presses a button and chirps
into a mouthpiece:
"'Great stuff, Secor. That talk of yours
gave me a bunch of ideas to fill those eight
pages : You spoke about killing yourself ;
why not send Kraus up to Sing -Sing and
get some recent dope on how they electrocute the murderers up there -good for two
pages with a full page washdrawing show ing how it's did!
"And you said "What in thunder," didn't
you, darling? Well what's the matter with
making a full page drawing showing all
the different stages of a thunderstorm
good for two pages.
"'Then you said absolutely impossible,
yes, no? Well; two pages of good stuff
showing historical instances how inventors made the impossible come true ; ought
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showing those inventions, what?
" 'Finally, you yelled so loud that my
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office are too good-how about two pages
on acoustic freaks-echos- strange acoustic phenomena
page illustrations how
to do it -there are your 8 pages -no, don't
thank me, call me up later if you need
more ideas!'
"I had heard enough. I collapsed right
then and there. After I came to a couple
of hours later, I slunk out of this idea monster's office. He had never even seen
-full
me.
After I had sufficiently recuperated I

thought I'd waltz up to see this Secor
bird. He looked-or rather sounded promising. ' As I had no appointment with the
gink I bribed the elevator brigand who
took me up, hidden in a big ashcan, which
just went up after having emptied its load
of rejected manuscripts on the paper
dealer's wagon.
I was dumped onto the associate editor's
floor and crept to the door labeled
HARRY WINFIELD SECOR,
E.E. I. R. E. S.O.S. P.D.Q.
ASSOCIATED EDITOR
The guy who thinks he does all the

work AND DOES
Thru the door came murderous sounds,

I had already turned back on second
thought, but a tall young giant who wore a
sign on his hat "Field Editor" rushed up
in a monstrous haste. He collided with me
and we both burst thru the door into the
sanctum. However, he paid not the slightand
est attention to me, so

looked at the scenery.
sat down and
Miscellaneous, gum chewing, powder puffing damsels sat at various desks manipulating their keys.
On the floor lay a long- haired cuckoo,
"artist" painted all over him. The associate editor was just then drumming an
editorial point or two into the artist's
anatomy. The Grand Vizier was waving
a drawing hysterically at the unfortunate
rat on the floor and lambasted him for
some minutes soundly.
"What in X ! ?X RRR do you mean by
crabbing my illustration this way R !X?
RRRRrrr Wow Bang Ziz
look at
this face -what will our readers think of
me
didn't want a pig's face
want a
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and look at this electric current-why, it

looks like a bunch of spaghetti, you fish faced, enaemic son of a rainworm. And
then look at this thing-Lord have mercy
on his brain that he hasn't got. Didn't I
tell you to put a derrick here-and look
what this poor idiot of an evaporated mollusk-brained flea puts in its place
HERRING, instead of a derrick. And here
we're scheduled to go to press at 4:39
A. M. and the drawing must be made over
again.
Whizz, Bang, BANG, WOW
X! ?XX! ?X
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Just then the loud talker with the 'voice

of the Editor-in- Chief's started:
"Listen Secor, I got a glorious idea, for
you to work out. Best I've had since five
minutes ago. Let's make a $100 prize contest what to do with discarded mouse traps.
Readers like these contests besides these
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inkstand that the irate Secor threw at the
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"See, there he goes again
Ideas,
IDEAS, nothing but ideas all day and
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work, and then I have to wrestle with this
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traps
,;
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The air reeked of the smell of putrefied
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second after. I then understood the gas masks of his victims sitting about the office.
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page 1292)
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neatly smeared:
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Would the Secretary of State not allow
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other news these past few months -so many

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(Bet you never even noticed that they
weren't in.) And so your letter remained
filed away in a special folder and, frankly,
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It wasn't until Friend Secor, Boss of the
Ink Slingers from the Editorial Department, just because he happened to be in
Cincinnati, 750 miles from home, with a
hole in the magazine, and no news to fill it,
AN OPEN LETTER TO MR.
stuck No. 5 of my little talks in the November issue. But lots of other things just as
THOMAS REED.
bad happened to that issue -that one we
Dear Mr. Reed:printed out in Cincinnati while the printers
A long time ago you wrote me this letter. were on strike in New York.
Anyhow it did one good thing-it reI'll reproduce it here because it's so long
minded me that I had a letter to answer.
ago you probably have forgotten it.
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Mr. R. W. DeMott,
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Advertising Manager,
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The Electrical Experimenter,
Mr. Reed, your point is well taken from
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one standpoint. But here's the big rub in
Dear Sir:
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the mail order field. Suppose you buy some
readers in this month's Experimenter, and
goods from New York. You live in Boston.
will bring to your attention a little suggesParcel Post rates are cheap between these
tion which I think.you may be glad to have.
You will understand that the incident repoints. Now suppose someone else living
lated in the enclosed letters was to me
in San Francisco buys the same article. Do
nothing more than an annoyance, but if the
you want to pay part of his parcel post or
practice is a general one of this advertiser.
it must be causing real disappointment
express charges ? That is what it would
among our readers, most of whom are boys
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with little money to spend. My suggestion
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is that you require all advertisers to state
that their merchandise is `postage free" or
seller would have to add an item for shipelse give the weight or something to indicate
ping that would constitute the average shipthat postage is extra.
ping cost for all his sales. That means that
In the case referred to I assumed that the
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age. The advertiser sent me the ringers
the shipping expense of the man far away
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and the one at a great distance would get
be collected C. O. D. As the cost of the
merchandise was only $1.00, the 30e extra
his goods more cheaply than he should.
charge was quite annoying. It also gives
For this reason it is customary in the mail
this advertiser an unfair advantage, because
order field to quote prices net (without
his prices look lower than they really are.
transportation charges).
I have no doubt that the advertiser
omitted the postage information
thru
And so it has become a recognized fact
oversight, but I don't want our boys to feel
that most mail order concerns require the
"stung" in the slightest degree when they
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LANGUAGES ?
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It is common to hear people say: "Why,

that is easy, -when they happen to overhear a discussion of interplanetary language communication,-"If this is as hard
as it sounds," say they, "then how do you
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Several very important and peculiar things
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The American Doughboys in France
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illustration.
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in Europe, that there are a dozen and probably several dozen different languages, socalled, which have a very large number of
common generic roots, and this explains all
(Continued on page 1306) .
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LODGE SAY.
Thomas A. Edison believes, according to

a recent publisht interview, that contrary
to the contentions of many eminent radio

scientists, the Heaviside ionization layer in
the upper atmosphere of the earth would
prevent earth-borne radio signals from
passing out into interplanetary space -that
these earth -borne radio signals would be
propagated into interstellar space for hundreds of thousands of miles by means of
the ether waves, and that it is possible that
the Martians, if there are such beings, had
received these signals, altho they might not
have the slightest idea as to what they might
mean.
As he jocularly remarked in an interview
at the recent celebration of his seventy third birthday, and granting that the messages radiated by our powerful trans Atlantic radio stations had reached such
distances as Mars, how do we know
whether they are received or impinge upon
a human or a chimpanzee? It is the opinion of the writer that the stray signals to
which both Dr. Marconi and Dr. Tesla refer to, as having been heard in their long distance radio stations from time to time,
are either signals from unknown distant
stations or else they are static disturbances
caused by disturbances of the electrical
equilibrium of the atmosphere, or possibly
of the earth itself.
Now that everyone in the scientific world
is taking a crack at the interplanetary communication game, Sir Oliver Lodge, the
well -known British scientist now touring
the United States, made the following suggestion :
"Nonsense," said he, when asked if he
thought it possible to communicate with
other planets by wireless telegraphy. "It
would be possible to place an immense geometrical figure, say on the Sahara Desert
and then, if the inhabitants of Mars are of
a high order of intelligence, they may be
able to distinguish the figure and determine
that it had been. the work of man. Geometry is a universal science, and it is not unlikely that if they are of a higher order of
intelligence than we that they can interpret
the gigantic figure as an effort at communication." (See illustration, Fig. 6.)
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MARTIANS.
A writer in the Western Electric News

recently made the following suggestion
which seems almost comic' and, in fact,
tragic, when we come to figure the bill, but
still it has the essence of sound logic in it,
when it comes down to real Earth -Martian
intercommunication. He suggests that we
take a large piece of ground, such as the
whole State of Illinois, and install upon this
nice flat piece of ground several million
1,000 candle -power flood lights fitted with
reflectors and shutter attachments. These,
of course, would all point sky or Martian ward, then he continues "Choose a dark
night and start the flood-lights working. I
would suggest that a complex net -work of
shutter control circuits he hooked up with
some automatic printing telegraph machines,
so that by shoving a piece of perforated
tape thru the automatic transmitter the
whole set of lamps could be illuminated in
any pattern desired
"For instance, an outline of the United
States could be shown by the lamps (see
Fig. 7 herewith) and at the bottom huge
letters, about three miles long, can spell out
the words Ù-N- I -T -E -D S- T-A- T -E -S.'
By the aid of their modern ultra -powerful
telescopes, the scientists on Mars can or
should see at a glance what we were driving at, and it would not matter whether
they saw the period mark or not."
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Mr. H. Gernsback has suggested that if

the proper interpreting apparatus was
brought into play, that the mysterious dots
and dashes received on the radio antenna
of the Marconi station, and also those cited
by Dr. Tesla, might yield sme very surprising results. In other words, if these
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shown in Fig. 8.
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transmission of this kind no regular sequence of the dots or dashes is feasible or
even possible.
In other words, the time element between
the succeeding dots or dashes all vary and
will never be alike. Due to these differences
in time between succeeding signals, the radio picture is built up.
As Mr. Gernsback points out, were the
Martians to send us such radio pictures,
they would probably first pick out some
astronomical fact, as for instance the planet
Saturn with its rings. Alongside of this
would then appear the symbol in the Martian language whatever they might be.
This is shown in our illustration, Fig. 8.
If the Martians were to send us pictures
such as these, extending over a number of
months, it would be very simple for anyone versed in deciphering foreign languages
to become acquainted with the Martians'
alphabet or language, as the case might be,
and very soon we would master the language without much trouble. By this method
the Martians could show us how they transmitted the messages to us, and we in turn
could then follow suit and answer back by
a like method.
This idea was prompted by the fact that
it is apparently almost impossible for us
Earthians to interpret intermittent signals
such as dots and dashes or short and long
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happened, in the past twenty-five years and

in the past one hundred years there has
been a greater advance in science than in
all the centuries that went before.
SOME OTHER OPINIONS.
Dr. James Harris Rogers, of Hyattsville,

Maryland, the well -known inventor of the
underground and underseas wireless, has
recently announced that he is preparing to
set up delicate radio receiving instruments
in his laboratory capable of responding to
signals up to 150,000 meters wave length.
This is said to be 50,000 meters greater
wave length capacity than that used at the
Marconi station, where the mysterious signals have been noticed by Marconi himself
and which he believes to have come from
some far distant planet-such as Mars.
In a recent interview Dr. Nikola Tesla
had the following to say: "That the planets are inhabited is a foregone conclusion.
I believe that the time has come for a serious attempt in the direction of interplanetary communication. We can begin by
erecting a plant for transmitting the signals
conveying the knowledge of numbers, which
would be the simplest truth that could be
communicated to the Martians or other
worlds' inhabitants, and which would be answered immediately if the planet is populated by a race as civilized as ours. Once
the first step is successfully carried out, it
would then be very easy to install more
elaborate apparatus for the transmission of
pictures, by means of which the most intricate thoughts can be communicated."
Another writer on interplanetarian communication, believes, like Sir Oliver Lodge,
that geometric figures would be very plausible as the first stepping stone to open up
relations between the earth and the Martians, and the sponsor of a very interesting
theory, Mr. J. G. Carter of Clifton, Ohio,
puts forward the suggestion that the snow
flakes which fall during our winter season
may even be influenced in a positive manner
by agencies controlled by the inhabitants of
other planets, such as Mars. This theory is
based on the fact that there is a very large
number of different geometric designs assumed by falling snow flakes.
In closing, we may very well take a few
moments to digest some remarks of an interested reader, Mr. Martin C. Hansen, on
the subject of communicating with Mars.
"From some recent newspaper clippings I
have noted the following statement `Some
wireless experts believe we shall soon be
able to exchange wireless messages with
such planets as may be inhabited.' YEH!
says I. And again, one article claims Venus
to be a 'younger' sister of the earth. Well!
:
well !
"Now, if Venus is so much younger than
the earth, then we must also concede its
race of inhabitants are also younger, both
in nature and inventions. if this is true
then we may have to 'feel' them for radio
signals for generations to come, before we
can hope to get any answer. And just as
Martians are supposed to have done the

same thing with us for hundreds, if not
thousands of years ; so will we have to keep
on signaling the Venerians.
"To return to the subject of intellectual
Martians. If the Martians are so much
wiser than we by a million or more years,
then they have NOT tried to wireless us for
the past thousands or more years, as they
certainly ought to have telescopes and other
instruments to actually ascertain what we
are doing along the line of inventions and
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fools as to signal us, when they would know
we had no instruments of any kind to record their signaling.
"If Venerians are a million years younger
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his engine and dynamo at night without
any storage batteries and obtain electric
lights, etc., which he actually did at his
Arizona plant.
Originally, however, when the plant is
put into complete operation, the heated
water runs from these storage tanks into
the sulfur dioxid engine and boiler system,
as shown clearly in the diagrammatical
illustration herewith. Sulfur dioxid, as is
well known, fias a low boiling point, so that
it can be placed in the boiler and heated
up, allowing the hot water to come into
contact with the boiler tubes containing
the sulfur dioxid. When the sulfur dioxid
in the boiler commences to boil, you then
obtain the necessary sulfur dioxid steam
wherewith to run the engine. In other
words, instead of using the fire to make
steam in the boiler, hot water is used instead, which originally obtained its heat
from the sun directly.
As the sulfur dioxid steam leaves the
engine cylinder it is not exhausted into the
open air, owing to its initial high cost, but
it is exhausted into a series of pipes over
which cold water is sprayed. This water,
in the case of irrigation plants, such as
that developed by Mr. Willsie in Arizona,
is the same water that is pumped by the
engine (the pump being a separate machine connected to the engine by belt or
otherwise) for irrigation purposes, so nothing is lost in this stage but the sulfur
dioxid steam is condensed and is then repumped or otherwise directed back again
into the boiler, only to be heated all over
again by the hot water coming from the
sun tanks.
As Mr. Willsie has pointed out, electric
light was had at night at his Arizona solar
plant, which was actually made by the rays
of the sun shining during the preceding
day, a seeming paradox, were it not for the
facts explained heretofore-that he has
found it possible to cause the hot water to
retain its quota of heat energy even for
several days at a time, when it is stored in
properly built tanks insulated with layers
of dry sand, or other heat insulating
materials.
Where this may not be practicable, we
can always have recourse to electric storage batteries, in which the dynamo would
pump electric energy during the day on
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1920
certain days. Then whenever the battery

became sufficiently low in its charge, the
electric energy required could be drawn
from the storage battery at night or at any
other time. Under certain conditions it
would probably not be necessary to operate
the solar plant to charge the storage battery more than one day a week, as, for instance, where such a plant was installed
(of the proper size, of course) for, let us
say, lighting a private dwelling or farmhouse and outbuildings, etc. By having a
sufficiently large storage battery which
would generate the energy required for
lighting purposes for a period of one week,
this could be taken care of by charging for
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aforementioned explanation as to charging the storage batteries but one or two
days a week, or possibly, as Mr. Willsie
points out, by suitably storing the heated
water in special storage tanks, explains
this problem.
And, anyway, it will probably not come
to pass very soon that we shall be selling
and installing solar electric lighting plants
on the roofs of apartment houses, in the
northern parts of the United States, as if
these were as cheap as sand in the Sahara
Desert, the average city dweller would not
bother with it, when he can spend $2.00 or
so a month and have the local electric lighting company supply all the "juice" he requires without bothering his head about it.
Btt it is another question when we come
to consider the vast stretches of land such
as those in the South and Southwestern
parts of the United States, where the fight
for survival of plant life is seen to be dependent upon the allimportant quantity
water. And here is where these solar
plants should and will find their ultimate
goal and adoption in large quantities, for
it is uneconomical under any consideration,
to attempt on a large scale an irrigation
of such large tracts of desert by meads of
coal or oil driven plants, as these fuel commodities are becoming more expensive each
year.
TRANSMITTING ENERGY.
Wireless telegraphy and wireless telephony suggest the possibility of transmitting energy by wireless waves. "Suggest"
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M. Constantinesco, has been experimenting
in England with a method that seems
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Ten minutes daily on the Automatic Exerdeer will build up a wonderful degree of fundamental, physical strength that will make life
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JIOIn
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Massages and execstrength and flexibility In the
rises the small of
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attachments for different parts of the body are hooked to the chain at any
point desired. The resistance increases automatically with each pull
and the numbers on the ball
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a time. The resistance
and increase is POSITIVE and UNIFORM and can be adjusted to less at
than a pound or several
pounds to meet the requirements of the different parts of the body.
It
novel.
He uses a tube filled with water or some

such liquid, in which vibrations of the nature of sound waves are produced at one
end and the energy is reconstructed at the
other end in a mechanical form. The details of the apparatus are kept secret, but
Constantinesco's researches have been
financed by the British Government, and
it has already been applied in the mechanism that stops the discharge of bullets
from the rapid firing gun of an aeroplane
each time that the blade of the propeller
passes before the muzzle. This is what
makes it easy to fire 2,000 shots a minute
thru a propeller making between 1,000 and
2,000 revolutions a minute. (But what has
this got to do with the wireless transmission of energy? Leave it to the daily "news
technicians. -En roa.)
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Shoulders a n d
Arms
356 lbs.
641 lbs.
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375 lbs.
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concern, in advertisements, claims that low

sounds and whispers are plainly heard and
altho it may be used in a few cases, the
claims are misleading.
The device is a small oiled silk artificial
drum having a waxed silk thread attached
to it. A piece of flexible rubber tube is
likewise included for insertion of the
"phone." The total price which the Morley concern charge for this device is $5.00,
its cost being about 25 cents. Something
similar was originally constructed in 1852
by Toynbee, altho the heads of the Morley
concern claim the invention, having secured
several patents on the same. It is nothing
but an artificial drum head, which is inserted into the ear. Indications for the use of
the same can only be determined by a competent aurist, after a most rigid examination.
Another drum of a similar nature is being sold by the Artificial Ear Drum
Co., which is a rubber contrivance called a
Medicated Ear Drum. Each end of this
is enlarged with a constricted portion in
the center. All that is necessary is to push
the device into the ear and Zowie ! you can
hear!
Likewise, we have yet to see where a

case of discharging ears has been remedied
by a similar device. The Wilson ear drum
is another of the wonderful wireless telephones for the ears for which great claims
and testimonials have been advanced.
Quite different from the above devices is
one even now on the market and claiming
International Notoriety, called the Macaura
blood circulator shown in Fig. 6. The inventor organized institutes and gave lectures
for the sake of perpetrating the sale of his
blood circulator or pulsator. This prince of
fakers, Dr. Macaura, then went so far as to
rent auditoriums and gave two shows weekly. His advertisements appeared the world
over. Finally, after having the most marvelous advertisements, rivaling everything
in splendor and imagination in various
papers, announcing the discovery, and after
having shifted his scene of operations thru
various countries, the self -styled "Doctor,"
who had swindled so many thousands, was
imprisoned for three years and fined $600.
It is here called the Cirkulon, and costs
over $15.00. It is a simple hand-operated,
vibratory device which will do none of the
things claimed for it, and is far less efficient
than the vibratory massage devices being
sold at a much cheaper rate.
The greatest series of ridiculous and nonsensical devices are those known as the
gas pipe cures, among which are found
the Electropoise, Oxydonor, Oxygenor,
Oxypathor, Oxytonor, and Oxybon.
These wonderful discoveries consisted of
a nickel plated gas pipe, beautifully finished
at both ends, with two wires running into
the same. This cylinder was about 3'/z
inches long and weighed about 5 ounces.
At the end of the wire is a small disc
which is attached to the wrist or ankle, or
both, by means of an elastic band and
buckle, according to the treatment. In
general, they are filled with either nothing
or else a worthless compound, such as carbon, either in stick form or pulverized,
iron filings or perhaps coke dust.
The first two of the aforementioned devices were empty, altho claimed to possess
The
remarkable electric ( ?) qualities.
Oxygenor was claimed to oxygenate the
blood of its victims. This fake was filled
with "rare and costly" materials, according to the makers (sulphur and charcoal by
analysis). The ozone so generated traveled
directly "thru the pores" and was so pow-
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April,
1313
1920
erful that a regulating cord had to be at-
tached to the device.

It cured everything from chicken -pox to
epileptic fits and from measles in childhood to heart failure at old age. When
placed into a tube of water it absorbed all
the oxygen from it and pumped it into the
blood-(at least the inventors said so).
Particularly in view of the fact that water
is made up of two atoms of hydrogen and
one of oxygen, we are hence, questioning
what the water looked like after all the
oxygen had been removed!
Another of these same gas pipe frauds
was guaranteed to cure everything except
cancer and tumor, on which it had no
effect. Of course, the makers had to admit
that there was some trivial disease that
could not be cured, as a cure -all is sometimes looked upon as being a fake, but if
glaring headlines state that we can cure
everything but tumors, why, of course,
that sounds more reasonable.
These devices were sold at prices ranging from $10 to $35. Their actual cost
not being more than 50 cents to one dollar, and their actual value being about
.00007 mills, i. e., they would bring this as
junk.
The magnetic blanket shown in (Fig.
8) is another of the magnetic frauds which
need not be discust at any great length as
magnetic devices have already been described. It is another method of extorting
the "coin" from an unsuspecting public.
A wonderful seller at one time was the
vacuum head cap which stimulated the scalp
and induced the naughty hairs which the
great bald headed man desired, to stop
playing hide and seek and come out for a
little air. It just seemed to suck this hair
out. This rubber cap, connected by a hose
to a pump operated by foot power (or a
motor driven suction device if the person
had the wherewithal to pay for the same),
was clapt on the head and placed into
operation.
As to the fallacy of the modus operandi.
When a suction device is applied to any
part of the body, it causes the blood to be
drawn to that part, but at the same time
causes a congestion in the superficial veins,
arteries, and capillaries, hence, the much
desired results are not produced.
In addition, it may be of some slight
value to note that the hairs are only modifications of the skin and consist of the
same structure as that membrane. When
therefore, once the root of a hair has been
killed, and its follicle destroyed so that a
shiny bald pate presents itself, it is impossible to coax any hair from the head.
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battery out of an old one, altho this is not

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of the EXPERIMENTER, but they would have
to be sawed off in order to get at them and
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in small cells which can be sold to run toys
for kids.
A battery with the plates short circuiting
will show little or no voltage, while one
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normal E.M.F. but hardly no amperage.
When the plates must be taken out you
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diagram. We have used two methods for
this, the blow torch, and moderately high
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parts) and these segments are reflected by
the small mirror to the second grid. Now
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the light filaments shown on the left hand
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The grids need not be inordinately narrow,
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A photograph of the mounting of the
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The reproduction of the speech sounds
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This outflow of water is roughly adjusted by opening the stop -cock to a greater or
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ble of energizing the otherwise powerless
boats. The latter would have the space
now occupied by boilers and engines to
utilize for revenue, devoting it either to
the carriage of more cargo or a greater

number of passengers, and would not be
hampered or made dirty by frequent fueling. The prime movers, on the other hand,
could go direct to the coaling pockets or
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would not entail the same property injuries. Finally, this separation of the
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But probably the most conspicuous gain
would be in shortening the lay -over periods.
That is to say, the power steamer would
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In effect it amounts to nothing more radical than applying afloat principles and practises that have become commonplace in the
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revolutions a minute. To drive the Dawn
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to give the boat a speed of 9 miles an hour.
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more
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to energize
moor
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It is a rubber stamp working like a date stamp
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Electro- Magnetic Brake.
(381) Ralph E. Hast, Elkins, W. Va., submits

the following:
'A number of powerful electro- magnets are
placed along the under frame of the cars directly
above the rails, and very close to the rails. An
automatic coupling socket is at the end of each
car so that when the cars are coupled a circuit
is completed. The amount of current used is
determined by the number of cars, and is controlled by a rheostatic switch within the cab of
the engine. The current is supplied by one or
more generators in the engine, used in connection with storage batteries. The electro- magnets
would be connected in series.
"This method of breaking would prevent the 'flat
wheels' resulting from the present form of 'air
brake' as the wheels would continue to revolve
until the train came to a standstill.
"As additional cars are added to the train, more
current is used when braking. This braking would
also I think, be more easily controlled.
"Of course the proximity of the electro- magnets
to the rails would have to be determined by the
average weight and speed of the cars."
A. There have been many patents taken on
electro- magnetic brakes in the past, but for some
reason they have not proved very successful, as
none of them have been adopted to the best of
our knowledge. It seems that electro- magnetic
brakes do not stop the train very much quicker
than an ordinary brake does. It should always
be borne in mind that a train is heavy enough
to brake itself once the ordinary brakes have been
applied and the wheels grind along the rails.
Any additional tractive effort on the rails would
not be worth while expending extra energy. Besides in order to energize these electro- magnets,
an extra current supply would be necessary, which
is not always available on all trains.
Snow Melter.
(382) Hugh Reynolds, Brooklyn, N. Y., writes

us:
"I have been very much astonished that New
York was unable to run its street cars for weeks
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have personally examined the third rail slot and
I convinced myself that in some cases ice covered all of them as high as one foot. It occurred
to me that it should be possible for the traction
companies to place an electrically heated boiler
on a specially designed car and then generate
steam. Three jets of steam would be expelled in
front of the car, one for each rail and one for
the trolley slot. With this steam it seems to me
that it would be only a matter of a few hours
to thaw out the railroad. Of course, where the
snow and ice was over one foot thick the progress
of the steam car melting its way thru the snow
and ice would be naturally slow, perhaps only a
few feet per hour. But, the main point is that
in a day a vast stretch would thus be melted
out. I would like to know why a scheme such
as this is not practical? If so, please give me
the reasons If you think it is practical, could
I obtain a patent on it ?"
A. It seems that we have read of a similar
scheme that had been tried before, somewhere in
the West, but we believe it was not very successful. While it is possible to use a device of
this kind, we think the main trouble lies in the
fact that it is difficult to keep up sufficient steam
by means of electrical power, because the amount
of steam which would be required to do the
thawing would he quite prodigious. Furthermore,
it would not be practical just to thaw away the
ice and snow only where it covered slot as well
as the rails, because if the snow were deep enough
the cars could not proceed unless all of the snow
and ice had been melted on the roadbed, and this
probably would require too much power. This is
one of the reasons why we believe the scheme
would not prove practical.
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human being. Picture a concert hall, along

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to the primary of a large induction coil
in series with the battery. Secondary leads
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This thing, has already _been tried out by
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the weakening of the loud -talker music is
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by neutralization of their "in- between"
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factor was made use of by the author in
the successful workout of Experiments Nos.
3 and 4, of Part 1.
(To be continued)
Measuring Elec-
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In a small flask place a mixture of 3

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neck of the flask insert a stopper and short
length of glass tubing. Over this, as shown
in figure 9, mount a short length of medium
sized combustion tubing. Boil the mixture
and light the vapor issuing from the top
of the large tube. The result will be a
brilliant green flame.
GENERATING COAL GAS.
Arrange apparatus as shown in figure 10,

placing in the hard glass test tube some
pulverized soft coal. Heat the tube strongly with a Bunsen burner flame and pres-
ently a gas will be given off which may

be lighted at the end of the delivery tube,
where it will burn with a luminous smoky
flame.
In the condensing tube will be found a
tarry distillate, which is commercially

known as coal tar and is the source of a
host of organic compounds.
In the hard glass tube will be left a
steel gray residue of coke.
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1920
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Water gas is one of the most important
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prepared as follows
Set up apparatus as shown in figure 11,
using a hard glass combustion tube 18
inches long and 44 of an inch in diameter.
In the end of the tube next to the flask
of boiling water insert a roll of previously
ignited asbestos paper, into which the tube
from he boiling flask should lead. The
asbestos is to prevent the breaking of the
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Arrange a distilling flask and condenser

exactly as they were for the distillation of
alcohol, as described in the February issue.
Be sure all connections are tight.
In the flask place some glass beads and
fill it half full of crude petroleum. The
thermometer used should be able to register as high as 360 C. Having provided
a wet towel to smother the flames in case
of accident, begin heating the flask. Notice
that the petroleum very soon begins to boil.
Catch the distillate in a small dry flask and

when the temperature has risen to 70 C.,
replace it with another flask. Continue the
distillation changing the receiving flask at
80 C., 120 C. and 150 C. stopping when
300 C. has been reached. This will give
five fractions and a thick tarry residue in
the flask.
The products are practically the same as
the petroleum products sold on the market:
Petroleum ether
Light gasoline
Heavy gasoline
Naptha
Kerosene
Lubricating oils 1 Obtained from
Vaseline
the residue in
Parafine
the flask.
Pour the residue from the flask while it
is still hot and rinse the flask with gasoline.
FLASHING POINT OF KEROSENE
A sure index to the grade and safety of

kerosene is its "flashing point." This is
the temperature at which the vapor rising
from oil will "flash" when a flame id
brought near it.
In a tin cup placed over a Bunsen burner
pour four tablespoonfuls of kerosene. Try
to light it with a match. If it, is a good
grade of oil you will not succeed. Gently
heat the cup and contents and at frequent
intervals try to light the vapor, at the same
time taking the temperature. The temperature at which the vapor will just ignite is
approximately the flashing point of the oil.
The flashing point of good grades of kerosene is from 120 F. to 140 F. If the oil
does not simply flash and go out but continues to burn you have pasty the flashing
point. In that case put out the flame by
covering the cup with a glass plate and
allow its contents to cool. Every minntt
or two test with a lighted match. Th4
lowest temperature at which the vapor will
just ignite is the flashing point.
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ments are purchased intelligently and carefully, the amateur station can pick up signals from stations many thousand miles
distant.
TRANSMITTING APPARATUS.
The prevailing question in Amateur

circles in regard to transmitting apparatus
seems to be whether or not it will be "arc
or spark." Personally, I am firmly convinced that the spark will stay for some
time to come. The arc is being widely developed commercially, but so is the spark,
and for short wave lengths, the spark has
proved the more satisfactory to date. In
view of the rapid development of the arc,
two or three manufacturers have put an
amateur undampt wave transmitter on the
market, all of which are excellent sets of
their kind. They are capable of doing very
good work with the small amount of power
which they consume. They may also be
used as radio telephones, with a slightly
decreased range than when used as telegraph transmitters.
A vacuum tube transmitter is also on
the market now, and looks promising, but
the choice today lies with the individual
Amateur. It will probably mean that a
bunch of us will have to install arcs at the
same time or let the old spark do the work
for a few years longer. She has done so
well in the past, and there is still such
room for improvement in spark sets that
it's a little early to think of undampt waves
for two hundred meter work. Let's turn
our attention to better results with the
spark sets. Develop the non -synchronous.
rotaries. There is room and then some
for improvement there. Get after them
and let's see what can be done toward making an ideal spark set. Go after oil condensers, or at least those with reliable insulation. Oscillation transformers should
be wound with heavy ribbon and of a width
that will count-not quarter inch stuff, or
even half. Make one or one and a half
inches wide for a one -kilowatt set. Transformers, too, should be of proper design
and are often better purchased than made
at home. Above all, keep your leads short,
and heavy, and get enough turns into your
oscillation transformer to chase the energy
across. What will a quarter turn in the
primary do?-make it one and a half, and
cut down your leads elsewhere.
There is a vast field for the development
of a good spark coil set. We don't all
live in the city where we can have "AC"
by turning a switch. Get a spark coil with
a good vibrator or substitute some sort of
interrupter for the vibrator -they are woefully poor at best. Then see what you can
do with it, and if you hit something real
good, let us all know about it-don't keep it
to yourself. In your spark coil experiments,
tho watch your wave, for the spark coil
anti little boy are the pests of the "relay
game," and no one wants to be clast with
them.
Get busy now, and let's see if we can't
have some really good stations this season.
We had scores before the war, but we
want hundreds now. Let's have descriptions and data on the good stations and
apparatus so that we may all benefit. I
have made receiving outfits such as described herewith, and they have given me
wonderful results. Lying in the harbor
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I had no trouble in getting Arlington's
spark, Tuckerton's alternator and several
U. S. arcs, with one bulb. If they prove
as satisfactory on short waves as they
have proved on the long ones, I'm going
to describe them for you fellows. Let's
all do that.
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1920
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One of the five men had establisht himself

as a lookout in a public washroom down
the corridor, a few paces from the outer
door of the consulate.
It was arranged that if danger should
threaten he would walk down the corridor
and give two quick taps on the door. On
the night mentioned he did hear some one
coming up a stairway. Quickly he gave the
alarm and then hastened back to his secret
post in the lavatory. Then men who had
been operating on the filing cases flicked off
their electric light, which was a specially
arranged one that illuminated only a limited
area. They gained hiding places under
tables and behind desks barely in time to be
out of sight when the watchman, if such it
was, opened the door and peered inside. But
he was there evidently just as a matter of
routine, in the course of his regular rounds,
and did not chance to notice anything unusual about the office, tho one of the searchers was lying within four feet of him. After
a moment or two he continued on his way.
Every detail of the plan of restoring the
safes and filing cases to their usual condition was carefully thought out. One man
was even assigned to the job of seeing to it
that the dust on the filing cases was about
as it had been. He swept up dust from the
floor and placed it where finger marks
might have showed.
The visits of the five men continued, beginning probably late in April, until the
early part of July, and it is believed that
in the early morning of the Fourth of July,
by way of patriotic coincidence, the last of
the German documents were removed from
the consulate.
On this final visit the five men arranged
to open a section of filing cases and also the
steel trunk, which was locked and sealed
about as the safes had been. It had been
left until the last, because, for some reason,
the men had an idea that the papers it contained might be of the least importance.
The truth was that the Germans had intended this trunk to contain the most important documents of all.
But when the men succeeded in opening
the one remaining section of the filing cases
and this steel trunk they had a surprise that
left them breathless.

Both the filing case and the steel strong
box were already empty!
They had been carefully sealed up by the
Germans without containing any papers at
all. It is now pretty well understood that
the papers had been secretly taken away by
one of the Germans who was intrusted with
the job of storing and sealing them up. Just
what personal use he intended to make of
them never has been disclosed. They were
found by the merest chance, so I have been
told, in two large suitcases and a steamer
trunk in an obscure storage warehouse some
weeks later.
When discovered these papers were
promptly turned over to the United States
Government. It so happened that they
reached the possession of Government officials at about the same time as the other
papers taken by the five adventurers from
the consular offices.
FIVE ADVENTURERS UNKNOWN.
Thus it came about that the United States

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how, when or by whom the papers were
captured.
Having once obtained the papers, the
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The variety of information then
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att1e Tracer
tom of which is attached a driving wheel

with a perifery of sharp teeth preventing
the Tracer from slipping off the table.
When a distant transmitter is actuated,
this motor in the Battle Tracer is simultaneously operated, causing the driving
wheel underneath the Tracer to move slowly along the table, carrying the Tracer with
it. The distance traverst in this way is
exactly proportional to the actual distance
traverst by the ship itself.
Lines of perforations are made by the
teeth of the driving wheel to trace the
course of our own vessel. The inner dial
likewise is made to turn by a third motor,
and the picture of the ship engraved upon it
will show the directipn in which our vessel
is traveling. In other words, the engraved
outline of the ship on the movable dial is
kept in plane with the rotation of the driving wheel carrying the Battle Tracer along
the table.
The pointer (D) heretofore described
going to the outer surface of the movable
dial and the inner surface of the fixt dial
indicates on the outer dial (A) the true
compass bearing of the target, and when
read with reference to the inner dial (B)
indicates the true bearing of the target
with respect to the ship.
A second pointer (E) controlled by another electric motor passes to the smallest
of the three dials and gives a reading of
the speed of our own ship transmitted, as
has been stated, on the revolution converter.
The enemy arm is continually being
moved in accordance with the range, corning from the target bearing transmitter.
On this arm is located a small carriage
having two pencil points, and traveling on
tiny rollers. The distance of this carriage
to the center of the Tracer is directly proportional to the range of the target. This
distance is regulated by a fourth motor,
actuated by the auxiliary range transmitter.
On the big gun turrets of the battleship are
the range -finding instruments. These instruments consist of an arm 30 feet long
with mirrors and lenses at each end; one is
set at a 90 degree angle and is moved until
the operator's eye, looking thru a hole
near the center of the instrument, spots the
enemy. Immediately he attempts to twist
the other end mirror so that the enemy
may be observed at the same time. The
angle thus formed allows the computation
of the range. The range thus determined
is transmitted to the Tracer room, where
an operator turns the Auxiliary Range
Transmitter in accordance with the information he receives from the range -finding instrument. In this way communication to the Tracer is obtained.
Scales are provided for reading the range
directly. Likewise, pencil points operated
on the ends of magnets controlled by a
clock, produce dots along side of the course.
Now, then, let us see what all these results
come to. First, we plot automatically by
communications directly from the propeller
shafts and gyro -compass the course and
speed of our ship on a large sheet of paper.
This is one definite factor that is known.
Secondly, instruments, on the mast -heads
of the vessel, keeping a "line" upon the
enemy vessel, cause the enemy arm to trace
another course upon the table. See diagram herewith.
All of this is figured out to mathematical
accuracy and system of ratios so that if
the enemy is eight miles away, the pencil
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1920
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"Couldn't come in thru the outer office,
ch ?" Fenner's eyes were roving over the
room. Frank shook his head slowly in
negation. "Three girls and the head bookkeeper out there all evening, working overtime. All swear not one of them has been
in this room this evening. Corey came in
thru the outer office-the only way he
could come in, for this office has only the
one entrance -and closed the door. About
half past eight one of the girls opened the
door to come in. She saw that something
had happened to Corey, and she didn't
cross the threshold. All of them had
sense enough to stay out. They telephoned
for us. I was the first man in."
"No other doors ?"
"Nope. Only one way in. Thru that
office."
Fenner was gazing at the wall on the

street side. "Did you open that window ?"
he asked.
"No. It was open. But it might as well
have been bricked up for all the good it's
going to do us. Corey opened it himself,
no doubt. It's just sixteen stories to the
street, and you can bet no one climbed up
to it. It's five stories to the roof. One
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if some one did have the nerve, they
couldn't have gotten in that window noiselessly enough not to warn Corey. And
just assuming that they did, they'd surely
leave a mark doing it, wouldn't they ?"
Fenner nodded. "They would indeed,"
he acquiesed. "How about the people in
the office out there? Are they all above
suspicion ?"
"All above it," complained Frank, "and
not only that, but the very number of them
lets them out without question. It's not
reasonable to suppose that three girls and
a man, all trusted employees, would conspire to kill their employer without a
motive for doing so. One of them might
try it, or maybe even two, but it's hardly
likely that all four would be against the
man."
"Right you are," admitted Fenner, "I
thought that way myself, but we have to
eliminate the possibility of an inside job
first. Well, Chief, I don't see that I can
do you any good in this matter. It is unusual enough to be interesting, and if you
don't mind I'll drop in and have a look
around in the morning.
"Help yourself," gloomed Davidson. "I
don't believe you can do anything in this
case myself. I just took a chance. You
might have, you know."
"I wish that I could have. And I'll look
it over in the morning on the off chance.
Good night, Frank, and good luck. Good
night, Chief. Come on, Bill," And we
left.
As we walked homeward, Fenner said:
"It seems that the day of miracles is not
gone by, after ail. What do you think of
that for a puzzle ?"
"I't's beyond me," I replied, soberly.
"The only possible explanation that I can
think of is that the man committed suicide."
Joe stood still and rocked with laughter.

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one man in a million -yes, I'll make it a
billion -that commits suicide by stabbing
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he's dead."
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He grew thoughtful at once. "I can't,"
he admitted, "unless
"Unless what ?" I asked, as he paused.
"Unless- unless -well, I wouldn't want
to say unless anything just now. Would
you like to go down with me again tomorrow morning ?"
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"I certainly would," I rejoined, instant"This thing's got my goat."

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my way down."
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ly.
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have you solved the mystery over night ?"
"No," I said. "It ecros more baffling
than ever after a night's thought. Have
you found the answer ?"
"Not yet. Do you happen to have a good
pair of field glasses ?"
I had, and I produced them. "That's
'fine," said Fenner after examining them.
"Let's go."
We had no trouble getting into Corey's
offices. The body had been removed, and
practically all traces of the tragedy had
disappeared.
Fenner dropped into the chair which so
lately had been used by the hapless victim. As he sat at the desk his back was
to the window, which had been closed.
"Well," he mused, "how was this man
If this chair could only talk.
killed?
Suppose I was across the street in another
building. Ah
Say I'm an old whaler.
I have a harpoon and a coil of rope. The
window is open in this office. That broad
back is a fine target
Bill, look out
that window and see if I couldn't do it."
I turned to Fenner, and in my most
sarcastic tones I said: "You could, Joe,
if you had an educated harpoon. After
you threw it, it would pause cannily in
mid -air, turn at an angle of forty -five
degrees, leap agiley up about six stories,
make another forty -five degree turn, slide
gracefully thru the window, and
But Fenner was on his feet and beside
me. His face was grave, but his eyes
twinkled. "Sufficient, William," he said,
"your sarcasm is excellent, but I'm too
busy to listen to the rest of it. Let's have
those field glasses."
Ten minutes past. I began to grow
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glasses to me. "Bill," he said, "do you see
that building out there-the one that appears to be as high as this one ?"
"I do," I replied. "That could only be
the Yeakle. It and the Atwood are the
two tallest buildings we have."
"Well, look it over carefully, and tell
me if you make out a clothes line on the
roof."
I gazed. At first I didn't see one, but
presently I located it. I told Fenner that
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"So I thought," he said, absently. "Well
-let's call Davidson over here. It's up
to him now."
I stared amazed. "Up to him," I parroted. "What's up to him ?"
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thing, aren't you ?"
"Do you mean that you know who
killed Corey ?" I asked, excitedly, as Fenner reached for the telephone.
He paused with his hand on the receiver. "No, I don't. But I know what
he was killed with-and Davidson will
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"Well," I demanded, "what was he
killed with ?"
Fenner called a numberinto the 'phone
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"What's this, Joe," panted the Chief.

"Find something? Got anything ?"
Joe leaned back in his chair, and I saw
that he was enjoying himself immensely.
"Yes, Chief," he said, cheerfully, "I know
what Corey was killed with."
The Chief darted a fiery glance at Frank.
"Find it in here some place, did you ?" he
barked.
"No," I could positively feel Frank's relief, "but I know what it was done with."
"Damn," exploded the Chief. "So do
I. It was a knife, but where
"Oh, no, it wasn't," smiled Fenner. "It
was a harpoon."
The Chief's lower jaw sagged and Frank
darted to the window. Then he turned
back listlessly to Joe. "Come again, Fenner," he said. "It can't be done."
"Not from those buildings below very
handy," admitted Joe, "but this harpoon
came from the Yeakle."
The Chief laughed shortly. "That's a
poor joke, Joe," he snapt. "The Yeakle
is a good quarter of a mile away."
Fenner laughed. "Yes, but this was an
educated harpoon," he said.
The detective Frank gave a sudden start.
"I get you, Fenner," he yelled, and he was
in motion while he spoke. "And I'll get
him and bring him here."
"Hey," yelled the Chief, "What
But a slamming door was the only answer. Frank was gone.
Davidson turned to Fenner. "What kind
of a game is this ?" he demanded. "You're
a pair of crazy asses, you and Frank. Now
tell me what you're up to."
"Bright boy, Frank," observed Fenner,
"it didn't take him long to tumble, once
he got the tip. Now sit down and wait
until he gets back."
For a half hour we waited in silence.
Fenner smoked nonchalantly and refused
to talk. The Chief fumed and paced the
room. "A waste of time," he muttered
again and again. The minutes dragged by.
And then the door opened and Frank
pusht into our presence a swarthy little
man with waxt mustaches and a decidedly
foreign air. He was handcuffed. Two uniformed policemen came behind, bearing a
long wooden box, which they placed on
the desk. "Here's the bird, Chief," chortled
Frank ; "Fenner you're a dandy."
The Chief and I stared. "Sure you got
the right man ?" he demanded. Then to
the prisoner, "What have you got to say?
Remember, it may be used against you."
"There is nothing to say," said the
prisoner, in perfect English, "except that
I killed Corey
"You confess ?" yelled the Chief.
The man shrugged hopelessly. "Confess!" he echoed, "what else is there to
do? I suppose you want to know why.
Well, because Corey ruined me financially.
He stole my purse; I stole his life. But
I'd like to know how you picked up the
trail."
Fenner stept over to the unfortunate
man. "I found it," he said, simply. "Why
didn't you keep that clothes line of yours
indoors ?"
The man started, paled, then cried in
anguish, "My God, I never thought of that.
I could have, couldn't I ?"
"You could," agreed Fenner, grimly,
"and if you had, you never would have
been caught. Send him over, Chief, and
I'll tell you how the trick was done."
The man departed in charge of the two
officers and Fenner tore the lid ,off the
wooden box which the officers had brought.
He turned to me. "And here, Bill," he
said, mockingly, "is your educated harpoon."
And he placed before my astonished eyes
an educated harpoon in very truth. It was
a small airplane, wirelessly controlled, and
its nose was a long, bayonet -like knife.
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1920
"Was his aerial," cut in Joe, "and for

the distance over which he wanted to work
he might just as well kept it inside. Just
look this thing over carefully, old man."
It's a shame that fellow stooped to murder. He has ideas worked out here that
is a magazine that is teaching
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The Chief finally broke the silence. "I
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Agents and Crew Managers new fast - selling
Packed your
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Sign Lettcrs for windows at honest prices.
Genuine gol I leaf. Chicago Sign System, G 326
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Insyde Tyres, inner armor for automobile tires
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Wide -Awake Man to take charge of our local
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Short Stories, Manuscripts, Wanted.

Short S;or:es, poems, plays, etc., are wanted
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Missouri.
Song Writers.
If You Will Write -The words for a song I
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Formulas. Trade Secrets. "Encyclopedia Business Opportunities."
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Substantial manufacturing corporation wants
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Secretary, 4i6 N. Howard St., Baltimore, Md.
Enter a new business. Earn $3,000 to $6,000
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trade you can attend to; easily learned by anyone at home in a few weeks at small expense;
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I Made $30 a We -k evenings with a small Mail
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Breed Canaries Profitable pastime. Particulars
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rare plant juices. Many others have had wonderful results. Fine for dandruff. Harmless.
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Hart Brittain, 15o E. 32d St., BB -3oo, New York.
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Help Wanted.
Detective s and lnvest:gators are in demand.
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Be a M.rror Expert. $3 -io a day; spare time
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Detectives Make Big Money. Travel, be your
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Write Johnson's Detective School, 232 Sheldon
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Colored Porters by Railroads everywhere. Experience unnecessary. 897 Ry. Bureau, East St.
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Salesmen Wanted.
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Here's a "Hummer"-Valuable Veterinary Formulas, for the treatment of Mange, Distemper,
Fits, Worms, Canker and Paralysis in dogs. As
prescribed by a specialist, $2.ao each, 6 for $io.00.
Compounded at any drug store. Practical Specialty Co., New Haven, Connecticut, Box 1525.
For the Hair

I Was Bald. Obtained hair growth by an Indian's ointment containing genuine bear oil and
Health Resorts.
.'s oungborn ' Butler, N. J. Nature Cure Institution. All Physical Culture and drugless methods
employed. Ideal resort for rest and regeneration.- Open all the year. Dr. Benedict Lust,
Butler, N. J. New York City office: American
School of Naturopathy, 'io E. 41st Street, Prospectus free. Explanatory literature, 25s.
Dr. B. Lust, Florida Drugless Health Resort.
Wonderful results in stubborn cases. Best
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Health.
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Guarantee Write for free brochure.

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Valentine Avenue, New )fork.
Tobacco or Snuff Habit Cured or no pay; $1
if cured. Remedy sent on trial. Superba Co.,
SA, Baltimore, Md.
Pyorrhea. (Rigg's Disease- Bleeding or Swollen
Gums.) Hundreds have been helped by "Pyorem,"
the successful home treatment. Purifying, healing,. preventative. Full month's treatment, consisting of a very beneficial massage paste and
an antiseptic tooth -cleaning paste to be used in
place of your ordinary dentifrice together with
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write for free Booklet "E. " Pyorem Mfg. Co.,
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Too Fat? Reduce weight easily, pleasantly, no
self - starvation no strenuous exercise. Reliable,
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Obtain Oil of Korein at any busy
pharmacy or write for free brochure to Korein
Co., NA -Boo, Sta. F., New York.
Free -Stop using tobacco. We will give free

information how to conquer habit easily and
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Lune, Dept. C, Omaha, Nebr.
For Men.
Books and Pictures-Catalog free. United
Sales Co., Springfield, DI.
Send Us Your Dull Safety Razor Blades. We
will re- sharpen them so they shave like new
blades for 3c each, any kind. Quick service.
Entire satisfaction guaranteed. Antiseptic astrin

gent pencil given free with every dollar order if
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Get Vital Strength. Retain youthful vigor.
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Detectives Earn Big Money. Travel. Great
demand. Experience unnecessary. We train
you. Write for free particulars. American Detective System, 1968 Broadway, N. Y.
Musical Instruments.
Violins. Deep, Mellow, Soulful on creel'

Easy terms for wonderful instrument. Get
tails today. Gustav Henning, 231 nth
Miami. Florida.
mentioning the "Electrical Experimenter" when writing to advertisers.
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April,
1920
Books.
Books --Continued.
Instruction-Continued.
World's Beet Book for Auto Mechanics. Covers

Elementary Electricity, Motor Car Electric
Systems, The Gas Engine and Driving Cars.
Nearly six hundred diagrams. Prepaid to you
for $2.50. Order to -day. H. E. Phillips & Co.,
Service Division, Union City, Ind.
Wireless Course in 20 Lessons. By S. Gemsback, A. Lescarboura and H. W. Secor, E. E.

Tells you everything you want to know about
"Wireless" theory, practice and history. A
clear, concise course on evc.y .phas' of this
subject. 160 pages -35o illustrations, 3o tables.
Flexible cloth cover, 75c postpaid. Stiff cloth
cover $1.2 postpaid. Experimenter Publishing
Co., Book Dept., 233 Fulton St., New York City.
Used Correspondence Courses. All kinds

bought and sold. E. Moffett Ruston, Louisiana.
Cartooning Comics and Lettering. Complete
Course only $5, postpaid. Over 300 illustrations.
Stamp brings easy lesson. Cartoonist Ernie,
Books on Sex for Men and Women. Catalog

free. United Sales Co., Springfield, Ill.
"How to Thought Read." Mind Reading at any

Distance, 2oc. "Hypnotic Suggestion" the Secret
of Success. 208 pages, i.00. Circulars free.
Science Institute, E18i8 North Wells, Chicago.
Are Spiritist Seeing Things? or hoodooedwhich? Read 119 -page booklet. Biblical expos
and facts concerning strange spirit "phenomenon." 15c post free. R. C. Polston, People's Information Service, Omaha, Ill. Box 74.
Rare Instructive and Entertaining Books.
Catalog free. United Sales Co., Springfield, Ill.
Dear Reader. If Occult, New -Thought and Scientific books appeal to you, send for my catalog,
it's free. I have books on Personal Magnetism,
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Book of Nature. By Dr. Faulkner. Plain facts
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World -Romic System. Masterkey to all languages. Six textbooks, $i.44; French chart, 37c.;
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Books for Men. Also "classy" pictures. Catalog free. United Sales Co., Springfield, Ill.
Nature Laws married and engaged people
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The Abuse of the Marriage Rlation. For sin gle, engaged and married men and women.
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Concordia Magazine contains essays, short
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Perpetual Motion, by Percy Verance. A history of the efforts to discover same from earliest
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pages. Price postpaid, $2.00. The Enlightenment Specialty Co., 3o5 Fourth St., Edwardsville, Hl.
Experimental Electricity Course in 20 Lessons.
By S. Gernsback and H. W. Secor, E.E. A Course
of the theory and practice of Electricity for the
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Experimenter
Stiff cloth cover, $1.25 postpaid.
Publishing Co., Book Dept., 233 Fulton St., New
York City.
Just Off the Press-Design and Construction of
Audion Amplifying Transformers, Radio and Audio Frequency Type. This latest and important
book by Mr. Edward T. Jones, late Associate Editor of "Radio News," will be of great interest to
all radio amateurs thruout the land. The transformers shown in these books have never been
described in print before, and have usually been
considered a manufacturer's secret. Anyone who
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without this book because it will enable him to
build the necessary amplifying transformers very
readily. The designs are very simple and rugged,
and anybody can make them without much
trouble whatsoever. Mr. Jones, the author, is a
practical man who is an experimenter himself
and knows whereof he speaks. The book is
printed on good paper and has an attractive
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working data necessary to build the transformers. Price, postpaid, 25e. The Experimenter
Publ. Co., Book Dept., 233 Fulton St., New York.
Old E. E. Back Numbers. We have some valuable old E. E. back numbers on hand as follows:
1915 -Jan., March, April, May, June, July. Aug.,
'ept., Oct., Nov. and Dec.; price each, 35c.
i6 -Jan., March, May,
June, Nov., Dec.;
'ce
each, 35c.
1917-Jan.,
April, Aug.,
, Dec.; price each, 35c.
1918- March, May,
July, Aug., Sept., Dec.; price each, 5c.
Jan., Feb., March, April, 35c.; May,
Aug., Sept., Oct., and Nov., price each, roc.
in., Feb., April, 2oc. We can fill orders at
ion receipt of your remittance. If you
t these numbers already, now is your
get them, as they probably will be
o very quickly. Experimenter Publish 3 Fulton St., New York City.
E'yria, Ohio.
Study at Home: .Dentistry, chemistry, etc.
Write Metropolitan College, Box 210, Station "A,"
Boston, Mass.
Letter Specialists.
Exchange.
For Sale or Exchange -Electrical Apparatus,
Musical Instruments, Cameras, etc. Write for
complete list at once. F. J. Bretzke, Brownsville, Wis.
Two Motors, wireless outfit, motorcycle wheels,
Oliver typewriter, tools, miscellaneous articles.
Box 255, North Bennington, Vermont.
Cy.le Incubator, $7. Harry C. Cooper, Park ton, Md.
Listen, My Children $17.00 takes my wireless
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Paint -Roof and iron, waterproof, stops leaks,
guaranteed five years; barrels, 70c gallon. Continental Co., 405 Lexington Ave., N. Y.
Sell. Swap No. 4 Victrola records, etc., $2oWorth Apparatus for Wireless; Details. Alfred
Embowitz, Washington, Depot, Conn.
For Sale. f4 H. P., im volt, D. C. Dynamo,
$36.00. Onyye pair Newy-Type phone, $i2.00. S. S.
$5.00.
B. Flonacki,
W.
Superior Street, Chicago.
Wanted to buy
or 3" Spark Coil. Geo. F.
Howell, Pasadena, California.
For Sale -Used Mechanical Drawing Materials.
Leder, 1187 2nd Ave., New York, N. Y.
For Sale. Rotary Spark Gap, No. 2 Junior
Omnigraph, Remington 22 Repeater and Audio
Tron. Bud Hartmann, 73 Liberty St., Meriden,
KMagnetoGeneratorr,,o$3.00.
Conn.
1 KW -E -Clapp Eastham transformer

Key, Oil
transformer ribbon, Beck insulator, Condenser,
Switchboard switches, Kickback preventer and
Hot Wire Ammeter, all aparatus sets on back
of board. Also R- L -C -4 -S Mignon Receiving set
designed for one -step amplifier. Best offer takes
it. F. W. Mann, 523 S. Park St., Kalamazoo,
Michigan.
For Sale. Bicycle, new, fully equipped. Carl
Madden, Clarksville, Ohio.
Must Sell -Complete electrical and chemical
laboratory. Send stamp for particulars. Karl
Peterson, Lane, Ill.
Exchange-Bausch & Lomb Microscope, fine
condition, complete with case, for Audion panel
Receiving set or Audion control panel, complete.
Lloyd Smith, McGill, Nev.
Two Step Multi- Audi -Fone. Will sell dirt
cheap. Write. Sherman Whiting, 2010 Park
Ave., Bridgeport, Conn.
Bargain. Complete wireless outfit $15. Powerful water motor $5. Clifford Anderson, 2o5 15th
St., Moline, Ill.
For Sale. Good printing press, and supplies,
including $3 worth of type. Express prepaid $8.
Eugene Mauer, 1624 Wis. St., Racine, Wis.
Letters and advertising matter so strenuous

and so injected with pulling power and pep they
can't fail to sell your goods. Nelson, um South
Broad, Philadelphia, Pa.
Music.
Songs for
In order to popularize our

great hit, "Desertland," retail price 3oc, for
a short time we will offer it and eleven other
popular song hits postpaid $r. Offer limited,
send $1 today Sure. Riviera Music Company,
Room i31 Chateau Theatre Bldg., Chicago, Ill.
12
$1.
Moving Picture Plays.

Photoplays Wanted. Big prices paid. You can
write them. We show you how. Free particulars. Rex Publishers, Box 175, E-12, Chicago.
Miscellaneous.
Clean Your Wall Paper, it's easy to do. New
process, no experience or apparatus required.
Complete copyright instructions, only one dollar.
James T. Herr, 2919 W. North Ave., Baltimore,
Md.
Be Well, Strong, Happy, Successful.
Drugs
and surgery unnecessary. Modernized Natural
Healing insures success also a profitable, philanthropic and educational profession. Convincing
literature free. Science Institute, E -i818 N.
Wells, Chicago.
Shawnee, Oklahoma-a live city. Questions
answered. Board of Commerce, Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Popcorn for Home Popping, shelled, dependable, sent anywhere. Write for price card. Five
Brothers Popcorn Co., Ames, Iowa.
Wanted -Small Gasoline and Steam Engines,
Small Lathes, Drill Presses and other, light machinery. Will pay high cash prices for good
material. Johnston, West End, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Trine beautiful, evergreen, ornamental firs, any
address., $t.00. Order 'now. B. B. Lee, Sta. A,
Vancouver, Wash.
Pershing's famous letter to Foch photograph
mailed quarter. Nelson, 1210 South Broad, Philadel his, Pa.
Motor Engines and Dynamos.

Small Motors and Generators. Cancelled Government Contracts. A. C. Motors, $9.50 each
and up. 52 Light no-volt generators, 426.50 each;
battery-charging outfits, $3o each and up. New
motors % -i2 up to 5 H. P. for all phases and
frequencies of current. Write for late bulletin.
Bargains in motors and generators. Address
Motor Sales Dept., No. 12, West End, Pittsburgh,,
Penna.
Motors Electric, no delay, % Hp., rio volt, 6o
cycle, single phase. New, money -back guarantee, $22.50. We buy motors of various sizes, 25%
with order, balance C. O. D. General Distributing Co., 22 West ist St., Duluth, Minn.
.
Song Poems Wanted.

Write the Words for a Song. We revise poems,
write music and guarantee to secure publication. Submit poems on any subject. Broadway
Studios, 197C Fitzgerald Bldg., New York.
Write the Words for a Song. We write music
and guarantee publisher's acceptance. Submit
poems on war, love or any subject. Chester
Music Co., 92o So. Michigan Ave., Room 265,
Chicago, Ill.
Song-writers' Manual and Guide Sent Free!
Contains valuable instructions and advice. Submit song -poems for examination. We will furnish music, copyright and facilitate publication
or sale. Knickerbocker Studios, 319 Gaiety Bldg.,
New York.
You Write the Words for a Song. We'll compose the music free and publish same. Send
Song Poem today. S. Lenox Co., sot West and
St., New York.
Song-writers. Market your compositions. Our
successful plan brings results. Work examined
free and honest advice given. Morrison Music
Shop, Dept. E, Indianapolis, Indiana.
You Write Words for a Song-We write the
music, publish and secure a copyright. Submit
poems on any subject. The Metropolitan Studios,
914 So. Michigan Ave., Room 113, Chicago, Ill.
Write a Song-Love, mother, home, childhood

patriotic or any subject. I compose music and
guarantee publication. Send words to -day.
Thomas Merlin, 326 Reaper Block, Chicago.
Instruction.
Crystal Gazing-The craze. Send self- addressed
stamped envelope for free instructions. Zancigs
Studio, Asbury Park, N. J.
News Correspondents.
Earn $25 Weekly, spare time, writing for newspapers, magazines. Experience unnecessary; details free. Press Syndicate, 566 St. Louis, Mo.
Stammering.
St- Stu-t -t -tering and Stammering cured at
home. Instructive booklet free. Walter McDonn ll, I05 Potomac Bank Bldg., Washington, D. C.
Tricks, Puzzles and Games
"10 Select Card Tricks" and latest catalog of
pocket tricks, jokes and novelties 6c. Lowest
prices. Send today! Lyle Douglas, Sta. A -r,
Dallas, Texas.
Send ten cents for large (beautifully illustrated) catalogue which contains all the latest
tricks, jokes, puzzles and illusions.
Oaks
Magical Co., Dept. 549, Oshkosh, Wis.
Magic. Entertain at home. Tricks, puzzles,
novelties. Send for free catalog. Martinka &
Co., Inc., 493 Sixth Avenue, New York City.
Tricks, escapes, puzzles, photos, books, catalogues free. Magicraft Co., Dept. G, Box 25r,
Detroit, Michigan.
Magic-Card Tricks. Sensational escapes, jokes,
novelties. Everything in, the amusement line.
Large illustrated catalogue of a thousand tricks
free. Write today. Largest amusement goods
manufacturers in the world. Heaney Magic Co.,
Desk 212, Berlin, Wis.
Marvelous Handcuff Escapes. How accomplished. Professional secret. Send 12 cents to
cover postage, etc. Money back if not satisfactory. O. Kam, 834 No. 8th St., Manitowoc, Wis.
April,
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1920
Patent Attorneys.
For Inventors.
Typewriters.
Patents. The Expert Personal Service of this

firm is of great importance to you in properly
protecting your invention by patent. (Est. 1897).
Write to John B. Thomas & Co., 902 F Street,
N. W., Washingon, D. C.
Patents Procured -Trade Marks Registered. A
"Sell or Finance Inventions." Read Money Talks Magazine. Send for tree sample copy.
7o -B Park Place, Newark, N. J.
Inventions Wanted -Cash or royalty for ideas.
Adam Fisher Mfg. Co., 205 St. Louis, Mo.
900 Mechanical Movements, also illustrations
explaining so Perpetual Motions. My book,
"Inventors Universal Educator," fifth edition,
tells how to procure and sell patents. Government and other costs. Covers the matter from
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noted decisions of U. S. Supreme and State
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greatly assist inventors, suggest new ideas that
may prove of great aid in perfecting inventions.
Tells how to select an attorney. Has valuable
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Agents and Brokers. Price $2. Postage free
everywhere. Fred G. Dieterich, 603 Ouray Bldg
Typewriter Ribbons all typewriters, 5oc.

Abolt Typewriter Company, 38 East 23rd St.,
comprehensive, experienced, prompt service for

the protection and development of your ideas.
Preliminary advice gladly furnished without
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disclosing idea free on request. Richard B.
Owen, i o Owen Bldg., Washington, D. C., or
2278 T, Woolworth Bldg., New York.
Patents, trade -mark, copyright, inventors,
business men, artists, write. Metzger, Washington.
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I report if patent can he had and its exact cost.
Send for circular.
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Engineer. Formerly Examiner, U. S. Patent
Office. Electrical Patent Matters a Sp -cialty.
Patents -Fees in installments. Frank T. Fuller, Formerly Lieutenant, Engineers, Washington, D. C.
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