Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-10-25
SUN TALK.
FROM THE ORE OF DAY
 HEARD ON EARTH.
Wonderful Scientific Achievement--S oIar Sounds to be made Audible by the TelephoEc---Edison's Great
 est Experiment.
From the New York Herald.

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 At Ogden, N. J, there is a mass of iron ore mile long, standing perpendicular 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 violent storms and uprushes in the sun produce disturb ances of the earth's magnetism, which are recorded on the nagnetometers at the Kew and other observatories, 1t has oc- cured to MT. Edison, that the strength of the solar disturbance, as exerted by our planet could "be increased enormously by utilizing a vein of magnetic iron ore. and running around the body of ore sev- eral miles of wire, forming an inddctive c1rcult, into which powerful electric cur rents would be thrown by any disturb ance of the earth's magnetism" By the use of instruments every change" he says, could be recorded, and by the use of the telephone all sounds produced on the sun would heard on our planet" He IS, accordingly, erecting telegraph poles on each side of the Ogden ore hill and parallel with it, on which he is coiling an insulated wire many times around the whole area where the earth's magnetic lines leave the iron mountain and extend into space. The two ends of the long wire will be taken into his observation station and connected with the receiving telephone.
 From every point of view poetic, spirit ual and scientific-tfis promises 10 be one of the most thrilling experiments ever made Its slccessful conductor like Wordsworth's
 curious child, who dwelt upon tract
 Of inland ground, applying to his ear
 The convolutions O. a smooth-lipped shell hearing a ''sonorous cadence" and hold ing converse with the unseen universe it self-will be able to listen to the awe inspiring rush and roar of the suns mountainous pillows of fire as they sput- ter forth in inconceivable fury from his cyclopean furnaces. What a sermon will be preached into the receiving instru- ment! A voice from the central orb on our planetary system-type answering to anti-type laundering forth the eternal power and Gol-head of him whom the Christian pulpit, often too feebly for our dull ears, proclaims the light of this world"
 From a scientific point of view the value of this experiment. may be immense. Every new fact brought certainly to light respecting the actual phenomena in the regions beyond" however insig- nifcant it seems atfirst, becomes to science in her onward path of research the key stone of an arch serving to bridge some hitherto impossible chasm. Almost every great outburst of 8 solar cyclone Is follow ed by magnetic storm on our little planet, and simultaneously the ices of it's polar circle glisten in the light of the Aurora Bcreais
 Familiar examples of this are found in all astronomical and magnetic observa- tions. The magnetic storm of November II, 1882 succeeding the appearance on the 18th of sun spot which, measured at l Allegheny Observatory, measured 2,200,- 100000 square miles, seriously interrupt ed the telegraph lines at New York, and cable messages were delayed nearly an hour, while at Chicago the switchboard was dozen times on fire. As an expert ment one of the Western Union wires be tween Washington and Baltimore was worke with the earth current alone There is every reason, therefore, to expect that the strength of all such disturbances will be increased enormously in Mr Edison's inductive circuit of the Ogden iron noun. tain; that by the use of his instrument the variations of intensity can be recorded and, as he hopes, sounds produced or the sun will be heard through the tele phone"