The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1895-03-27
AIR A STORAGE ERY.
Can Be Tapped for All the FL ctri-
city Needed

city Needed
Elias b. Dunn, the weather obser-
yer at-New York, has been studying
atmospheric electricity for two
years, says the Boston Transcript.
The sergeant, as they used TO call
him; the farmer, as they call him
now, said the other day that he will
live to see the day when electricity
collected from the atmosphere and
stored 10y some means which an
Edison or a Tesla will have to de-
wise, will revolutionize the world.
The prophet expects that cities will
be lighted and heated 10y atmos
pheric electricity; that every train
and car will be run, lighted and
heated by it; that coal will become
a curiosity; that steam heating will
be a granny talk to the children OF
the next generation; that the tele-
graph and telephone companies will
lose their monopolies; that war will
become a farce, because a touch OF
electricity will make the British
Grenaders or the German Uhlans
or the Scotch Highlanders sit down
on the cold ground powerlcss.
Even the dreams OF communica.
ton with the inhabitants of Mars
will become realities, and man will
be able to strike up electricity a he
does parlor match. There will be
no more trolley strikes, because
there will be no more trolleys. Man
kind will tap the atmosphere for al.
most any convenience except food
and clothing, aud even the clothing
will be woven and the food cooked
by atmospheric electricity; street
cleaning will be as easy as the magi-
clans "Presto! chaugep aud every
body will live comparatively happier
ever after.
Mr. Dunn is sure that his ideas
are practical and probable. The at
mosphere is his constant study, and,
having introduced general humidity
to the public as the principal ele-
ment in uncomfortable days, he has
determined that the potent element
for good in the air We breathe shall
no longer be wasted. Why, he said,
the whole atmosphere is soaked with
electricity.
The earth, as is we'll known, is a
storehouse of electricity. That it
passes from the clouds to the earth
we can see in every thuuderstor m.
The earth is a good conductor, es-
pecially damp earth, and water is
the best conductor possible. Every
person is possessed OF body electri-
city. The vital force is all in the
electrical powers you contai in your
body. When the day is damp you
become weakened through the loss
OF your bodily electricity, because
the atmosphere is a greater conduc-
tor OF the electrical fluid than your
body, and consequently what is in
your body will pass to this moist +,
damp air. That is the cause of that
tired feeling. This passing OF cleo
tricity to the atmosphere enervates
you to such degree that q person
in naturally weak state will col
lapse or become much worse by the
loss OF this bodily electricity. The
atmosphere being charged with cleo
tricity and the earth being a store
house for it, il there were some con-
trollable method of storage devised
by which you could draw off mod
crate amount OF electricity at will
and keep that force on tap all the
time, with an appliance by which
power could be generated-aud
there's no reason why that can't be
done-then atmospheric electricity
would make all the wheels in the
world go around. The barons would
DO done up. There would be nc
more need for coal. There ought to
be enough electricity in the atmo
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