The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-12
AN AMAZING MACHINE
ASTONISHING CLAIMS MADE BY A
BROOKLYN INVENTOR.

mluu heaQeT-NnaE the inventor says
John Millmore is either one of the most
thoroughgoing cranks of this cranky age
or genius who is destined to occupy quite
prominent niche in the temple of fame
and in the future rank as one of Brooklyn's
favorite sons Mr.. Millmore has invented
flying machine-not, however, the sort of
machine made familiar to people by pre-
ceding inventors, who fondly imagined they
themselves, with their corporal bodies,
could, by utilizing certain forces and eX-
banding a pair of artificial wings, cleave
the air with them and soar into the realms
of space, but machine which shall have
electricity for motive power and be used
merely for telephone purposes, and it may
be in the semioccult manner referred to
hereafter.
The machine proper is shaped like
cigar. The materials are nothing more
nor less than human hair, and though Mr..
Millmore's first machine will be when in
hated for practical purposes 40 feet in
height, and when in motion about 30 feet
wide at the base, it can be compressed in
the hand to the size of an ordinary rubber
ball, and like that article so dear to small
boys may be carried about in the pocket
Near the top and near the bottom of the
cigar are suspended oblong globes which
are to be used as illuminators, so that
every one who likes may see the machine
in its rapid flight and watch it shoot
through space and rise and fall at the will
of the operator Without knowledge OF
electricity in both the writer and the read
er it is difficult to describe the machines
re nd h,,t
Millmore says about it is something like
this:
1T is talking as much as a flying ma
chine, and it will, if l am successful, carry
messages by the column to all parts of the
world. 1t is constructed of human hair,
because that is the most perfect conductor
of electricity the mind of man can con-
ceive. 1t is light and it is so strong that
when driven by electricity the fercest
storm cannot turn it from its course Elec-
tricity will carry the language employed
in messages through the hair tubes. But
before proceeding further l may explain
that this machine is propelled from dark
room, and received in dark room at it's
place of destination. l sit here in front of
a keyboard as the propeller, and guide it
to the right or to the left, depress or ele-
difficulty, for the keyboard has switches
for the purpose that child could operate.
AS you will perceive in the diagram the
hairs extend above the top. Their points
are dipped in carbon, which prevents their
burning. The stranded threads sloping on
either side from the base are drawing and
projecting wires respectively. They regu-
late the movements of the machine.
HUMAN HAIR ENOUGH.
"Where would I procure human hairs
How many women die in a year? The
hair they leave after them would suffice to
take my machine around the world a
hundred times and it would surely be
more usefully employed that way than
moldering beneath the earth. Of course it
would have to be prepared by dipping in
carbon or some solution equally simple.
The idea of sending out a machine con-
structed Of hair, making it fly at the rate
of mile in q few seconds, and carrying in
its ribs, which are the hairs, an Grafton of
four hours duration to be spoken once more
on the photograph plan at the other end of
the world may seem absurd at first but
not so after awhile. The telegraph was
laughed at in the beginning, so was the
telephone, SO was the phonograph-in fact
so was every new invention. By operating
in dark room where there are mirrors
you can see the machine, or its negatives,
wherever it goes, and so regulate its move
ments with mathematical precision by aid
of the key and switchboards already re-
ferred tor
do you mean to say that you will send
out machine which, running on hair
lines, will do all you predict for it''
81 shall do so with Gods help, if I live
long enough"
But after all. Mr.. Millmore, that would
not be so vast an improvement as regards
usefulness to mankind"
This was put suggestively, and the in
ventor, if he is one, hesitated before reply
ing.
greater crank, shall answer that there is
something else in the machine-a mind
reader"
WHAT"
"A mind reader. Do you see that
straight line running right through from
the top to the bottom of the diagram
That is a mind reading wire. have dis
covered, startling as the assertion may
sound, that brain may communicate with
brain by means of a wire, an all but invisi-
BILE hair wire, applied to certain part Of
the forehead in certain way. 1t is only
necessary TO place it to the forehead of the
person whose thoughts are to be read; the
reader may hold it in his hand. Now, You
will admit that if practicable this would
be an important discovery Statesmen in
Washington and in London could in this
way, through the machine, read what was
passing in the brains of each other and
none but themselves be the wiser.
FOR DETECTING CRIMINALS
But apart from the machine the appli-
cation of this hair wire might play an I'M
portant part in the detection of criminals
How? Why, by placing it against their
forebeads and thus making them confess
4 man cannot refuse to think; that would
be impossible Yes. the almost invisible
wire, which, like a geometrical line may
be said to have position, but not magni-
tUde. enters the pores of the flesh and can
be sent around into contact with the brain
A Psychologist will tell you this is not i'm.
possible
"Now," said Mr. Millmore in conclusion,
Il am aware that ! have expressed myself
very badly. and perhaps you will interpret
me even worse None but a scientific per-
son-an eXpert-can understand my theory
or my invention, much less convey my idea
accurately TO others Unfortunately am
poor man and all but illiterate Remem-
Der that some of the greatest men the
world has known were poor and illiterate.
Some of the apostles were So and under
stand that Stephenson, who invented the
steam engine, could neither read nor write.
All I ask of science is not 70 laugh at me
until they have heard me and seen my
model, so far as my humble means has al
lowed me to construct it. II they pronounce
it practicable money will come to operate