Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-23
ArELEPHonE ro THE SUN.
a Marvellous Experiment. Edison Now Ha
Under Way In Kew Jersey.

TELEPHONE To THE SUN.
A Marvellous Experiment. Edison Now Has
Under Way In Kew jersey.
At Ogden, N. j., there is mass of
iron ore 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 yiolens storms and uprushes in the
sun produce disturbances Of the earth's
magnetism, which are recorded on the
magnesometers at the Kew and other
observatories, it has occurred to Mr..
Edison Shat She strength of the solar
disturbance, as exerted by our planet,
and could be increased enormously by
utilizing a. vein Of magnetic iron ore,
and running around the body Of ore
several miles of wire, forming an induc
tive circuit, into which powerful cleo
trio currents would be thrown by any
disarmament 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 be
beard on our planet" He is, accord
ingly, erecting telegraph poles on each
side of the Ogden ore hill and parallel
with it, on which he is coiling an in
sllated 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 receive
ing telephone.
From every point OF view-poetic,
spiritual and scientific-p1omises to be
one OF the most thrilling experiments
ever made. Its successful conductor
like Wordsworth's
curious child who'dwelg upon a tract
| OF inland ground applying to his eur
| The cOnyolutions of a smooth Tipped shell
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 SUMS
mountainous pillows of fire as they
SHUTTER forth in inconceisable 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
answering to anti-type laundering forth
the eternal power and God-head of Him
whom the Christian pulpit, often too
feebly for our dull ears, proclaims "the
light of this world"
From semitic point Of view the
value of this experiment. may be i'm
mense. Every new fact brought GER
tainly to ligh bit respecting the actual
phenomens in "the regions beyond, y
however insignificant it may seem al
first. science in her onward path of re
search, the keystone of an arch, serving
} to bridge some hitherto impassibl,
; chasm. Almost every great outburst O
solar cyclone is followed by mag
netic storm on our little planet, AMI
simultaneously the ices of its polar cir
Gle glistep in the light of the Auror
Borealis.
} Familiar examples of this are foun,
, in all astronomical and magnetic obser
1 vations. The magnetic storm of Noven
. Der II, 1882 (succeeding the appearance
d on the 10th of a sun spot which mea'
p ured at Allegheny observatory. cove1
o 1900, 100000 square miles), seriousl
interrupted the telegraph lines at Ne
= York, and cable messages were delaye
+ nearly an hour, while at Chicago til
q switchboard was a dozen times on fire
i As an experiment, one of the Wester
9 Union wires between Washington an
i Baltimore was worked with the cart
current alone. There is every reason
: therefore, to expect the strength of al
9 such disturbances will be increases
r enormously in Nh. Edison's inductiv
circuit of the Ogden iron mountain
that by the use of this instrument tn
{ variations of intensity can be recorded
. and, as he hopes. sounds produced o,
r the sun will be heard through the tele
l phone. "-Ne,o Yorh Herald.