The St. Louis Republic., 1904-11-06

ture-2,000 degrees centigrade Gs32 Fab
renheiD. To the knowledge Of science
never before had the sun projected such
heat upon the earth's surface.
Not only did Father Himalaya succeed
in reducing oxide Of iron. silica. quartz.
basalt, granite. glass and firebrick to a
liquid state. but the plumbago crucible
which held the minerals yielded to the
heat and mixed like water with the iron
and silica. The melting Of the plumbago
crucible was beyond the cleric wizards
expectations. The 1862 degrees of sun
heat. however. were powerless to melt
lime. chalk or magnesia.
The outcome of this determination Is the
pyrheliophor. making since the first ex-
pertinent. October/1s, half revolution a
day and generating more than 1000 de-
grees Fahrenheit The machine is con-
trolled by clock specially constructed by
Father Himalaya.
my apparatus proves conclusively that
there is no limit to the high temperatures.
With 1t we can reach the highest physical
ly possible, and even a little higher than
the actual temperature Of the sun. owing
to the mirror concentration. The present
pyrheliophoro has not been constructed,
however, for such very high Temperatures.
Such an instrument can be built for. say.
$50, 900. and hope to accomplish this
1.-THE pyrheliophoro shows positively
that. no matter how high temperature
substance may be subjected to. there 10
no change In the atomic composition.
Aluminium under 1000 degrees Of heat is
still aluminium. This has been a mooted
question among the scientists always The
pyrheliophoro successfully explodes the
dreams of the alchemists Of old. who
thought to change the baser metals into
gold. 1t cannot be done.
"As to the improvement Of the fertility
OF the soil. which was one Of the things
that 1 have hoped for, am prepared to
say. after the experiments Of month here.
it has been accomplished. The problem is
solved. How this is to be done I cannot
explain at this time.
NOT PRACTICAL HERE FOR POWER
THE use Of the pyrheliophoro for the
generation OF steam or for the creation o:
motive power by some other means will
come, but for that am not as yet ready.
The commercial application Of the sun
motor is. of necessity. limited by climatic
conditions. To be practical. a motor or
a motive power must be such that 1t can
cannot be used in the vicinity of st. Louis
because tire sun does not shine continu-
ously here. In California, In the Sahara
South Africa the sun shines the year
around. and there it will be possible to
harness the rays of the sun with the sun
motor and to make them work for man"
HIS SUN MACHINES.
My experiments with the various sun
machines have constructed" said Father
Himalaya. "have led me. believe. to
some new ideas as to the earth's construc-
.ion-the physical, chemical and astronom-
ical forces that sustain it; that produce
the light OF the stars. the heat Of the sun.
All these new ideas treat OF in the pazss.
phlet describing the pyrheliophos.
DO the new deductions sustain the bio.
lical account of the worlds creationy'
Perfectly" was the quick reply. but
according to the Hebrew rather than the
Latin text. Complete harmony between
Scripture and science exists in the Hebrew
text. The account of the worlds creation
as recorded In the Latin text is bad
stance. Is translated to mean water,
liquid, while In the Hebrew version 1t Is
vapor. fluid. gas. which gives an entirely
is in the Interpretation Of the Hebrew
word "aeon," epoch, an indefinite period
of time, which the Latin text translates
to our measure Of time, day Of twenty
four hours duration.
ITO imprfson the suns heat and turn
1t to commercial account has worried the
brains of physicists. chemists and astron-
omers since ages before the Christian era.
Some forty or fifty years ago the Ger
man army tried to verify the feat attrib-
uted to Archimedes by focusing hand
mirrors on the ships of the enemy and by
the heat thus concentrated on a certain
SPOT of the ships surface to set 1t on nre.
The same conflagratory success fs said to
have crowned the efforts of the Germans
az that of the .ire-eating Greek"
The pyrheliophoro is to be removed from
the Worlds Fair grounds at the close OF
the Exposition and probably set up again
at Lisbon. in Portugal Father Himalay3
also hopes to enlist the aid Of wealthy
men in his own and other countries, in
building another and larger instrument
that will catch and confine the highest
heat that Is physically possible