The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-01-13
AN AMAZING MACHINE
ASTONISHING CLAIMS MADE BY A
BROOKLYN INVENTOR.

or genius who ~ destined 10 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
n flying machine-not, however, tIe 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-
panding a pair OF artificial wings, cleave
the air with them and soar into the realms
of space, but a 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
aated 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.
At least that is what the inventor says.
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 a knowledge OF
electricity in both the writer and the read
er it is difficult to describe the machines
or its workings and uses, but what Mr..
Millmore says about IL is something like
this:
1t is talking as much as flying ma
chine, and It will, if | am successful, carry
messages by the column to all parts Of the
world. IL 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 IL 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 | may explain
that this machine is propelled from dark
ROOM and received in dark room at its
place of destination. | sit here in front of
a keyboard as the propeller, and guide it
to the right or to the left, depress or ele-
vate IL at pleasure without the slightest
difficulty, for the keyboard has switches
for the purpose that a 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 slopiug 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 | procure human hairf
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 OF some solution equally simple.
The idea OF sending out a machine con-
structed of hair, making il fly at the rate
OF mile in a few seconds, and carrying in
its ribs, which are the hairs, an Grafton Of
four hours duration to be spoken once more
on the phonograph plan at the other end of
the world may seem absurd at first but
not so after awhile. The telegram 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 il goes, and so regulate its move
ments with mathematical precision by aid
OF the key and switchboards already re-
ferred to-"
DO you mean to say that you will send
out machine which, running on hair
lines, will do all you predict for itS'
Il shall do so with Gods help. if | 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 renIv.
ing;
AT the risk Of being considered n still
greater crank, | shall answer that there /.
something else in the machine-a mind
reader"
"Whaty"
"A mind reader. Do you see that
straight line running right through from
the top to the bottom Of the diagram,
Ihat Is mind reading wire have dis
covered, startling as the assertion may
sound, that brain may communicate vvitb
brain by means of wire. an all but invis;.
bic hair wire, applied to certain part Of
the forehead in a certain way. Ii is only
necessary 10 place il to the forehead Of the
person whose thoughts are to be read. the
reader may hold il in his hand. Now. Won
Will admit that il practicable this would
be an important discovery. Statesmen in
Washington and in London could in thi,
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 annl,.
cation of this hair wire might play an i'm
portant part in the detection OF criminals
Howf Why, by placing it against their
foreheads and thus making them confess.
man cannot refuse to think; that wonld
be impossible Yes. the almost invisihla
wire, which, like a geometrical line NAV
be said to have position. but not magni.
tude, enters the pores OF the hesh and cnr
- sent around into contact with the brain
A Psychologist will tell you this is not i'm.
possible.
Nov, said Mr.. Millmore In conclusion
Il am aware that have expressed myseIf
very badly, and perhaps you will iuternra,
me even worse. None but a scientific ner.
son-an expert-can understand my tbeorv
or my invention, much less convey nv ides
accurately TO others Unfortunately ann
a poor man and all but illiterate. Remem-
her that some OF the greatest men the
world has known were poor and illiterata
Some OF the apostles were so, and under
stand that Stephenson. who invented the
steam engine, could neither read nor w,ife
All ask OF science is not TO laugh M me
Il knN La..