The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-02-19
WEALTH FROM CLAY.
Brazelle Says II Can Be Transformed
Into Precious Metal.
A Missourian Inventor Says lie Has
Discovered Key To Electricity.


Benjamin Brazclle scientist and invent
or, well known among men OF his class
claims 10 have discovered the key to cleo
tricity and the transmutation Of clay into
gold, silver and iron, and 10 have perfected
his discoveries 20 an extent that will revo
lutionize the science of chemistry.
His demonstrations have been so salts
factory as to enlist the incorporation of q
company by number of sleading capital
lists TO put them into practical effect. The
company has already started its plant al
Fairlawn, in st. Lonis county, Mo. II
will soon he completed and ready, its pro-
jectors assert, 90 turn out aluminium. cal
cium, gold, silver, iron and many other
metals not known to science, oil maNu'
factured from common clay
BY actual test, ID is stated, Mr., Brazelle
has changed silver into gold and gold into
silver The transmutation he considers
the most insignificant part of the discov'
cries he has madc-a mere nothing in com.
parlson with the feat of changing clay
into gold silver, iron, calcium, slumin-
ium, glacium and l5 other metals not
known To science and whose qualities have
not yet been determined by the discoverer.
In addition To his ability 20 convert clay
yances the theory that metals are endowed
with life and grow like any plant when
placed under the proper conditions. The
theory is not lacking demonstration, and
has been proved to the satisfaction of the
scientist and his financial hackers beyond
the peradyenture of doubt.
From that he deduces that all things In
the universe arc endowed with life, and
that rocks, minerals and earth, all appar-
emily inanimatc, arc full of life, energy and
growth, and that .hey develop and die like
plants.
Mr.. Brazelle sweeps all present chemical
laws aud axioms out of existence with "A
knowing wave of the hand. According to
him, there is no chemistry as it is at pres
ent understood The teachers of that sci
enoe have been in error these many hun.
dred years, he says, because they never
went deep enough into the apparent mys.
teries of nature, which, he claims, are not
mysteries Mt all, simply childish problems,
easy of comprehension, II a person once
holds the key.
That key To the secret of all the phenom-
ena Of the world, Mr.. Brazelle says, he
holds in his hand. He says il Is simply
the full understanding and knowledge OF
what electricity l.. With 80 he says he
opens up the scaled doors which hid the
cause of the lightning, the formation OF
clouds, the movement of the tides. With
that key, yet undiscovered by such cleo
trical wizards as Edison and Tesla, Mr.
Brazelle declares he studied the universe
and the world.
Just what electricity Is he will not yet
reveal. According TO him there are two
kinds of clectricity--thc primary or pure
with which man can never hope To deal or
grasp, and the secondary or commercial,
which, in conjunction with earthly things,
serves mans will.
Having solved tho problem Of what cleo.
tricity is, Mr.. Bra2elle says that the rest
was easy. Just how his knowledge of
that evasivc and wonderful energy led to
his other discoveries he will not state.
In pursuing his investigation Mr.. Bra.
zelle says he found that nature knows no
color and that all metals are primarily
white, like silver. In his cracible tubes
he says he has treated clay and has created
Is new metals and all the known ones.
His invcsti cations led him 70 the con
clusion, IL is assorted, that there are but
three primary motals--coppcr, lead and
iron-which cannot bc resolved into com.
pound parts. Tho accepted chemistry
teaches that there are 75 simple or primary
metals which cannot be reduced TO parts
Take gold, for example. II Is consid
cred a primary metal. No acid, 10 is held,
will dissolve 1t except aqua rcgia Yet
Mr.. Brazcllc Gays he finds that gold is a
compound and not simple Substance 1t
Is made up, he declares. of two unknown
quantities. There is so per cent Of one,
which he terms 2x, and 20 per cent Of the
other, which he terms TX. The TX will
not dissolve in aqua rcgia, and no other
known acid will phase it. Both TX and
2x are white when separated. In compo-
sition they take on the hue of gold.
The company organized TO make prac.
tlcal use of the startling discoveries will
at the beginning coniine itself to the man.
ufacture of aluminium, which sells for $50
a pound; calcium, which commands SIS, 600
per pound; glacium, which sells at $50 u
pound, and zorium, one Of the Lew metals,
which Mr. Brazelle thinks il destined to
take the place of steel Chicago Times.
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