The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-11

Rychnowsl1i, ''I am able to revolution
lie the atmosphere for at least one
metre. With more powerful machine
there is no doubt that I shall be able to
control the movements of all bodies for
at least 100 metres.
Look at this spider; it is active
enough. but directly place it upon this
acknowledgment disk the centrifugal
force of the rays causes the legs. as you
see to be spread out in highly ride
ulous manner. The tiny insect cannot
move until release it.
'tBut, to better demonstrate the at
tractive power of my electroide, here is
a wooden doll, which I will place in con-
tact with the machine. The arms, legs
and hair are of twisted wool. You see
that directly they are charged the limbs
fly violently apart. Now, dart your fin
ger at any part of the body, or throw
these pieces of rolled-up paper toward
the hands. You notice that the doll is
too quick for you and has caught the
foreign body.
Instead of a spider. we will imagine
ship. or a fleet. or, say, a body of men,
and for the doll let US substitute an
enormous electroide machine. We have
but to concentrate the rays upon the
fleet and, obedient to the law of attrac
ton. the ships would be powerless to
get away and would be compelled to
more round in an elliptical orbit. With
these same rays I could render the men
horS de combat without killing them"
MI,
troide Is generated looks uncommonly
like a sewing machine covered with
flaps of canvas. Two or three trans
mission wheels. a crank. and a small
funnel-like orifiee-that is all that
meets the eye.
Rychnowski turns a crank. A faint
gurgling and cracking are heard, and
In the dark pale biuish-violet flame
plays around the orifice like the ghostly
light of tradition. The surrounding at
mosphere becomes suddenly charged with
the invigorating odor of fresh mountain
air. A subtle, imponderable gas is being
emitted from the orifce into the space
around only to be absorbed into every OBJ
ject in the neighborhood
A disk is brought near and then
plunged into water A phosphorescence
floats like a violet cloud upon the water.
This is nothing less than the gas visible
Rychnowski fetches from a t6tpe4e u Il
looks like lamp and Winds It t1poo 1t
sheds a faint huorescence, which has
something Of the luminosity of feeb' @
daylight. 1t is lamp filled with clock
work instead of oil.
Indeed, the electroidc lamp, with rs
strange, new artificial light, was the firs t
appliance made. 1t was not until after
ward that Rychnowski discovered the
force
Some of the queer things done by
electroide are thus described by the
writer of the article which first announc-
ed to the scientific world Rychnowskis
discovery:
Meanwhile some of the stran yest
Imaginable phenomena are being enacted
before my eyes. His Invisible energy
causes all light and freely suspended OBJ
5ects rear the gaseous Jet to revoIve
round their own axes, and to describe a
movement in an elliptical orbit. Each OBJ
ject eXcrts an attractive influence upon
u contiguous one, although in the case
of an induction current the direction of
movement is exactly opposite to that of
the larger one. Detached tncandes cent
lamps become charged with a fluorescenoe
when held TO the orifiee and the light IS
made to revolve by the aid OF a magnet
applied to the outer surface.
"A set of balls and concentric rings rem
fesenting the physical universe perform
the most complicated and involved move
ments. Pieces of cotton wool, attracted
by the electroide-chmgad bodies, would
fly to them. remain hanging for time
and then be just rs violently elected
again. Here was some subtle energy of
which the like had never been seen and
the nature OF which tie word electro
ide' only vaguely expres d. Hence oae
is inclined to believe anyth NJ which shall
explain approximately its peculiar char
acter even to accepting with blind fai h
fulness the claims of Rychnowski to hav-
ing chained the dynamic forces of iii
sun 10 the service of mankind
'Electroi6e,' SAID :his woneersul cen
iurcr was nothing more or less tn 4
that universal energy, that ''urkraft'' Of