The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-02-26
AIR A STORAGE BATTERY
4 Theory That II Can Be Tap
ped For All the Elec-
tricity Wanted.

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.,mosphel ic electricity for two years
'he Sergeant, as they vsed to call him
he farmer, a. they call him now, said
he other day that he will live to Sc,
he day when electricity collected from
he atmosphere and stored by some
means which an Edison or Tesla
| will have to devise, will revolutionize
the world. The prophit expects that
the cities will be lighted and heated
ny atmospheric electricity; that ever,
train and car will be run, lighted and
heated by it that coal will become a
curiosity that steam-heating will be
granny talk to the children of the
next generation; that the telegraph
and telephone companies will lose
their monopolies; that war will be-
come farce, because touch of cleo
ivy will make the British Grenediers,
the German Uhlans or the Scotch
Highlanders sit down on the cold
ground powerless.
Even the dreams Of communication
with the inhabitants of Mars will be-
come a reality, and man will be able
to strike up electricity as he does a
parlor match. There will be no more
troIly strikes, because there will be no
more trollies. Mankind will tap the
atmosphere for almost any cOnven-
fence except food and clothing, and
even the clothing woven and the food
cooked by atmospheric electricity !;
street cleaning will be as easy as the
magician's "Presto! changed" and
rybody will live comparatively
happier ever after.
Mr.. Dunn is sure that his ideas are
practical and probable. The atmos-
phere is his constant study. and, hav-
ingfntroduced general humidity to
the public as the principal element in
uncomfortable days, he has determine
ed that the potent element for good in
the air we breathe shall no longer be
wasted. Why, he said, the whole at
mosphere is soaked with electricity.
The earth, as is well-known, is
storehouse of electricity. That it
passes from the clouds to the earth we
can see in every thunderstorm. The
earth Is a good conductor, especially |
damp earth, and water is the best con-
ductor possible. Every. person is
possed of body electricity. The vital
force is all in the electrical powers
you contain inIYour h''N. " hen the
dap is damp zoe become weakened
drought the loss of your bodily cleo
tricity, because the atmosphere is a
greater conductor of the electrical
fluid than your body, and.consequent-
Iy what is in your body will pass to
the moist, damp air. That is the
cause of that tired Ifeeling. This
passing of electricity to the atmos-
phere enervates you to such degree
hat a person in naturally weak state
will collapse or become much worse
by the loss of this bodily electricity,
The atmosphere being charged with
electricity and the earth being
4 store-house for it, if there was some
method of storage devised
by which you could draw off a moder-
ate amount of electricity at will and
keep that force on tap all the time,
with an appliance by which power
Gould be generated-and there's no
'eason why that can't be done-then
electricity would make all
he wheels in the world 60 around
The barons would be done up. There
would be no more need of coal. There
ought TO be enough electricity in the
to supply light and heat,
ls well as to do all the work Boston
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