Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-15
TELEPHONE TO THE Sun.
MR. EDISON HOPES TO HEAR THE
ROAR or THE SOLAR FURNACE


The Receiving Instrument Located In
New Jersey, Where Connections Have
Been Made with an Immense Deposit
eF Magnetic Material.
at Ogden. N. r., there is mass of
iron ore a mile long standing perpen-
dicular and extending into the bowels of
the earth to great but unknown depths,
said TO contain several hundred million
tons of magnetic material. As the vio-
lent storms and uprushes in the sun pro-
duce disturbances on the earth's magnet
ism, which are recorded on the magnet
ometers at the Kew and other observa-
tories. it has occurred to Mr.. Edison,
says the New York Herald, that the
strength of the solar disturbance, as ex-
srted on our planet, could @be increased
enormously by utilizing vein of mag
netic iron ore, and running around the
body of ore several miles of wire, form
ing an inductive circuit, into which
powerful electric currents would be
:hrown by any disturbances of the
sarth's magnetism.
by the use of instruments every
shange," he says, "could be recorded,
and by the use of the telephone all
sounds produced on the sun would be
heard on our planet He is, accord
ngly, erecting telegraph poles on each
Iide of the Ogden ore hill and parallel
with it, on which he is coiling an insu-
.ated wire many times around the whole
area where the eartll's magnetic lines
cave the iron mountain and extend into
A. Il. = L. Ix~..r
will be taken into his observation station
and connected with the receiving tele-
phone.
From every point of view = poetic,
spiritual, and scientific-this promises
to be one of the most thrilling expert
ments ever made. It's successful con-
ductor-like Wordsworth's
-curious child, who dwelt upon tract
OF inland ground, applying to his ear
The convolutions OF a smooth-lipped she'll
hearing "sonorous cadences' and hold
ing converse with the unseen universe
itself-will be able to listen to the awe
inspiring rush and roar of the suns
mountainous pillows of fire as they
Splutter forth in inconceivable fury from
his cyclopean furnaces. What SER
mon will be preached into the receiving
instrument A voice from the central
orb of our planetary system-type an
swering to anti-type, laundering forth
the eternal power and Godhead of Him
whom the Christian pulpit, often too
feebly for our dull ears, proclaims tho
Light of this world.
From a scientific point of view the
value of this experiment may be inn
mense. Every new fact brought cer-
tainly to light respecting the actual phe-
nomena in the regions beyond, how
ever insignificant it may appear at first,
becomes to science in her onward path
Of research the keystone of an arch serv-
Ing to bridge some hitherto impossible
chasm. Almost every great outburst OF
= solar cyclone is followed by a magnetic
storm on our little planet, and stimuli
taneously the ices of its polar circle
glisten in the light of the aurora bor-
calls.
Familiar examples of this are found
an all astronomical and magnetic obser-
vations. The magnetic storm of No
pember II. 1882 (succeeding the appear
ance on the 10Th of a sun spot which,
measured at Allegheny Observatory,
covered 2, 200. 900, 900 square miles,, seri-
ously interrupted the telegraph lines at
New York and cable messages were de-
layed nearly an hour, while at Chicago
the switchboard was a dozen times on
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