The Savannah morning news., 1900-11-18
xII-The Loo,ing Of the Moon.

! shall spare the reader "A recital OF the
ureless efforts. continuing through many
almost sleepless weeks. whereby Andrew
Hall obtained his ciew TO Or Syx's moth
cd. II was manifest from the beginning
that the agent concerned must be some
form OF etheric. or so-called electric en-
ergy: but how 10 set Il IN operation was
the problem Finally he hit upon the APP
p1ratus for his initial experiments which
/ have already described.
Recurring to what had been dome more
than half n century ago by Hertz. when
be- concctrated electric waves upon a focal
point by means OF "A concave mirror"
said Hall II saw that the key I wanted
lay In an extension OF these experiments.
Al last I found that could transform the
energy OF an engine into undulatlons Of
tho ether which. when they had been
concentrated upon n metallic object like
a chunk OF gold. impaired 90 IL an in
tense charge OF an apparently electric
nature. Upon thus charging "A metallic
body incloscd In vacuum. / observed
that the energy impaired To 81 possessed
the remarkable power OF disrupting ita
atoms ana projecting them OF In straight
lines very much as occurs with
kathode I'm a Crooke's tube. But-and this
was 81 supreme Importance found that
tho line Of projection was directly 70
ward tho apparatus from which the inn
pulse producing the charge had
come. In other words. could pro
duce two poles between which
a marvellous interaction occurred NV
transformer. with hs concentrating mir
ror, acted az one pole from which energy
was transferred 20 the other pole. and
that other pole Immediately flung on
atoms OF IT, own substance IN the direc-
ton Of The transformer. But these
atoms were stopped by the glass wall OF
the vacuum tube. and when ! tried the
experiment with the metal removed from
the vacuum. and surrounded with air. f.
failed utterly
This az first completely discouraged
me. until suddenly remembered that tho
moon s. IN a vacuum. the great vacuum
OF interplanciary space. and that u POS
sesses no pcrceptible atmosphere OF as
own. At this great light broke around
me. aud I shouted Eureka Without hes
itatlon constructed a transformer OF
great power. furnished with a large para
boiic mirror 10 transmit the waves IN par
ale' lines. erected the machinery and
buildings here. and when al was ready for
the final experiment telegraphed to you
Prepared by these explanations was
an on nre 60 see the thing tried. Han
was no less eager, and. calling IN his two
faithful assistants TO make the anal adj
justmcnts. he ted the way into what he
facetiously named the lunar chamber"
'If wo fail" he remarked with smile
that had an element OF worriment about
a.. IT will become the iunaiic cham
her'-but no danger OF that. You observe
this polished silver knob. supported by
metallic rod curved over at the top like
a crane. That constitutes the pole from
which I propose 10 transmit the energy
to the moon. and upon which I expect the
storm OF atoms TO be centerod by re-
Election from the mirror at whose focus It
is placed"
zone moment" said. Am 20 under
stand that you think that the moon Is a
solid mass OF artemislum and that no
matter where your radinnt force strikes
n 'kathodic pole will be formed there
from whuch atoms viii be projected 10 the
earth7"
NO" said Hail or must carefully
chose the point on the lunar surface
where 20 operate. But that will present
no difficulty. I made up my mind as