The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-09-21


specific gravity of the condensed parti.
Giles ceased; and that ascertalned, they
proceeded to find at what point water
at the surface ceased to condense, and
began to descend and leave the sur
face exposed to the atmosphere, and
how when still further tested, and eX-
posed to the severity Of cold, brought
it down to freezing point, when ii
became reduced to ice, which not being
condition of free caloric or heat, pre-
vented the water beneath the surface of
ice from being affected by the external
cold
The scientist Investigated the mys-
terry, why the sea never freezes; sci
ence discovered that the water is so
deep that frost never lasts long
enough to bring down the temperature
of such vast body of water to forty
degrees.
They discovered also that salt water
does not freeze till it is cooled down be-
low thirty-two degrees, and the law of
condensation proves this.It was dis
covered that salt condenses many de-
srees below freezing point. When the
free caloric of fresh water is impris-
oned in ice, or by the ice on the surface,
the ocean unaffected still continues to
throw off heat into the atmosphere,
and this is one of natures most mystic
rious laws, a signal dispensation of
Providence, and is the one reason why
the air round the seashore is moderated
in the most intense cold of winter
Underlying all this are the two grand
laWs-one of retraction and the other
electricity
A new generation of scientists will
prove these laws to still need new in
vestigation till the theory of the non
conducting powers of liquids is thor
oughly proven, and the elastic forces of
solar rays are fully demonstrated
They tell you the atmosphere is heated
by the rays of the sun passing through
it. l can prove that the elastic forces
heat the atmosphere, and l can also
prove that modern scientists have not
mastered the alphabet of electricity.
The atmosphere is perfectly trans
parent medium which neither radiates,
absorbs nor conducts caloric or heat
but transmits the rays of the sun to the
earth without in any way diminishing
their intensity.
The air is no more heated by the
suns rays passing through it than dia-
monds, glass or water Is, or any other
transparent substance. Even glass
windows are not heated by the suns
rays, or by the sun shining on them
not if the glass is perfectly transparent.
for science proves that glass transmits
the sun rays without being heated by
II. The proof of this may be afforded
w the burning lens Converge the
rays to a focus and it will set any com
busE1ble body on fire without even rails
ing its own temperature.
10 show still better experiment in
proof tsat transparent medium is not
heated by the rays of the sun, throw
the focus OF a burning lens into a YES
sci of clear water. No effect on the
temperature of tie water will be pro-
duced But introduce an opaque body,
or even piece of cork into the vessel,
or under the focus, and the water at
that point Of the focus will begin to
boil.
l am beginning to show you electric
ity, and prove that even now it is in its
cradle, and no man has mastered the
first three fundamentals.
You may believe solar rays and the
elastic currents hold the power which
moves the universe. One more new
revolution, and the human will COM
mence to understand the laws which
govern electricity. If you hold piece
of clear or transparent glass near the
fire it will almost Immediately be
warmed by it. The glass, therefore.
must hold and retain some of the cal
oric or heat radiated from the fire.
Now then If the solar rays alone
passed through the glass without the
glass being effected or heated by it, and
not being even warmed by it, does 1t
not seem strange that the radiation of
fire should have power superb
or to the suns rays, and do what they
cannot accomplish. The vast differ
ence is not because the rays of the fire
have more power, but because they
have less, that they are able to heat
glass and other transparent bodies.
The electric forces are so finely demon
strated that modern scientists have
not vet combined them into form. and
forget, as they approach the source of
heat, that the rays being nearer each
other the heat becomes more con-
1ensed, and produces electrical effects
IF which the solar rays are incapa-
Die, owing to the great distance of their
No scientist, not even Edison. is yet
capable of roasting dead lamb, or
oint of meat, by bringing the focus Of
he SUMS rays to bear upon It,
Yet it is easily done, by caloric emana-
ions from burning bodies commonly
,alled culinary heat.
All heat was supposed to proceed
originally from the sun. Its intensity
md velocity changed by being incorpo-
'ated with terrestrial bodies, is essen
tally altered by different combinat lions.
30 scientists say. / know tine electric |
currents running like sllken threads
through the vast regions of space at
ract and hold all particles of light and |
those forms of solar rays |
nto positive and negative electricity, |
oxygen and nitrogen are thus made to |
lold their forces, and in a measure do |
combine and hold control over the in |
ensity and velocity of solar rays
This generation of scientists is to be |
rowned with success. Instruments |
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