The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-06
THE POSITION OF THE POLE.

Mr. Hurbert Child of this city, who is
quite IL student of scientific questions,
principally those relating TO electricity,
has been giving good deal Of attention
lately to the mission of Colonel Glider to
the North pole. Yesterday i'll CONVERSE
ton with an EAGLE man he offered the
following solution OF the problem which
Colonel Glider proposes to 60 to the pole
to solve. 1t will be Of interest to the
many students OF electrical principles
among the readers of the EAGLE. In his
own language he says:
'In late eastern paper l read that
scientists are puZzling their brains 10 find
out why the north pole is not a fixed or
geographical pole. Why is it that this
particular pole is not stationary, rs a re
spectacle pole should bef That these
questions may be definitely answered,
Colonel w. H. Glider is soon to start out
well equipped. ice pack and tundra" to
endeavor. so far as in him lies, to remove
this bee from the scientific bonnet. Now,
knowing the terrible trials Mr.. Glider
would have to encounter | will endeavor
to remove the bee by explaining why the
north pole is apparently erratic (and only
aliAt thoo So'O 'iOtHSA
Glider from wearisome trip and
his digestive organs from an undesirable
conflict with those dilectable compounds
known as canned goods aud for this kind
act have no doubt that at some future
time yet unthought of little Gilders shall
rise up and call me blessed
And now for the Pole: Farraday, think
it was. that made the discovery that by
winding IA wire round piece of iron and
then sending n current of electricity
through the wire, an induced or magnetic
current would be started and at a right
angle to the electric current. Now, Pro-
lessor Farraday would have found out,
had he thought it needful to try, that it
would make no difference whether he
wound the wire around the iron or wound
the iron in the wire. Sending the electric
current through the wire would in
either case produce the same magnetic
result. This simple fact should not be
forgotten. Now l wish you to think of
the WIRE iron and induced or magnetic
current that is always started at right
angle to the electric. Think of the sun as
an immense dynamo. The earth turns
toward the east, while the sun Is putting
an electric spiral, so to speak, about the
earth through which it is sending con-
tinuous current of electricity. Now what
is the result Simply. as in the case of
the iron. an induced current is started that
flows ut right angles to the electric giving
TO the earth as to the iron, magnetic
poles.
To understand properly what / am
io;r Taxa mia Of
paper. make on it one spot to repre-
sent the sun and another the earth.
Now draw line to connect the earth aud
sun and at a right angle to this line draw
another to represent the induced or mag
netic current: this line is really the mag
netic pote Now suppose we move the sun
toward the north do not forget the
angle) what would be the result? Why
the pole would be moved eastward
Should the sun move south the pole would
be forced west Now it makes no differ
ence whether the SUI or the earth does the
moving. the result must be the same
Scientists tell US that the earth makes
some exceedingly erratic motions and
they have even spoken so disres pectfully
of old mother earth "a TO say she has
wabbIe in her gait" Now do Eoe forget
one thing, il makes no difference which
wabbles, earth or sun. the angle Of sun,
earth and pole can never change aud con-
sequen;ly any change in the relative posi-
tion of sun and earth must bring about
wha. seems TO be a change in the pole.
geographically.
Hence, in conclusion, if old mother
earth has wahble ia her gait the north
pole will have corresponding wabble IN
It's location. Ii the scientists can predict
the direction of the next eccentric move
of mother earth ali they then have 70 d o
IS to apply Forraday's law and they can
readily locate the pole