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

A great scientific truth has been demon
strated at the Worlds Fair. Through the
aid of the great sun motor, just to the
southwest of the Administration building,
Father Himalaya has found without the
possibility of a mistake. that the actual
origin Of the rays and the heat OF the
sun is electrical. This exDlodes lot of
theories and disproves many more that
were based upon incorrect deductions
The Pyrheliophoro, OF sun motor, Is the
invention of Father N. A. G. Himalaya,
Portuguese priest and professor Of physics
and chemistry at two COLLEGES in Portugal.
Santa Crus, at Coimbro and at Oporto.
The wonderful scientific apparatus was
erected at the Worlds Fair with the
financial assistance of wealthy citizens of
Portugal Since 1t has been In working
order. Father Himalaya has been max
ing wonderful experiments with 1t.
He has found that the heat of the sun
Is more than double that Of the electric
arc, which has heretofore been the highest
known temperature-s.3G0 degrees Fahren-
heit. He has found that there Is no known
substance. not even asbestos. that will not
fuse in his wonderful sun furnace, into
which the concentrated rays of his great
mirror reflector and concentrator are
thrown. Asbestos always chars and some
times fuses.
Manganese. the hardest known metal
to fuse, melts and runs as water in the
Pyrhel;ophoro. Iron has no opportunity to
melt, SO intense Is the heat. Instead of
fusing and running in liquid state as 1t
would In a blast furnace. it shrivels and
drys UP and becomes as paper that has
been burned in a fire.
Another great discovery that Father
Himalaya has made is that no matter
how high a temperature substance may
be subjected to. It's molecular properties
always remain the same. Iron, melted or
burned to ash Is still iron: 1t does not
turn to anything else. Gold, though
burned to crisp in the Pyrheliophoro. is
still gold. Manganese does not become
something else after 1t is fused. Aluminium
is always aluminium. though 1t be sub
jected to 1900 degrees of heat.
INVENTOR A REMARKABLE MAN.
Father Himalaya Is remarkable man.
His life has been devoted to scientific pur-
suits. He has In Portugal erected three
other sun-concentrating apparatuses and
he says that with $4,000 he could build
one that. thro Ugh greater concentration.
would develop temperature higher even
than that of the sun itself
Father Hiralaya is tall. six feet, spare
and student is marked on his face in
dellibly.
He speaks his own language, Spanish,
French, Italian and Latin nuently. but
with English he struggles painfully. ut
is the hardest of ALL he said, as he ap-
pealed to an associate to interpret for
him.
On the brow of green hill looking to-
ward the floral clock of the Agriculture
building. with Forestry. Game and Fish in
the rear and nanked to the west by the
children,s working gardens. rises. not un-
like huge extended Morris chair, the
pyrheliophor.
A steel frame AZ feet high with conch-
shell-like outline painted brightly blue en-
circles reflector.
This reflector in shape suggests the sec
ton Of a cone and In its suspended position
the whole is not unlike the back OF re-
clining chair. The reflector Is made of
steel lattice Stats, each set with mathemat-
ical accuracy.
The slightest deviation might work dis
aster. The concave inside of this conical
section is completely covered with squares
Of looking glasses 5x10 inches. each square
riveted by brass screws to the steel stats
that form. the basis Of the reflector. and
adjusted to its neighbor with mathemati-
cal exactness. giving a perfected concave
surface of 6117 mirrors.
SUBSTANTIALLY BUILT.
The pyrheliophor is built to resist cy-
clones or electric storms. The rejecting
gridiron may be adjusted to any time of
day to meet the sun. The rays are con-
centrated from a rejecting area 6,117 times
that of the heating surface. which is a
small point not more than 6 inches in
diameter in the upper center of a steel
crucible the size of an ordinary barrel at
the point of focus.
This crucfble Is lined with magnesia-
Plumbago used in previous machines con-
structed by Father Himalaya having
yielded to 1000 degrees cenugrade 3.S32
Fahrenheit. magnesia. with its undecom-
possible metallic base, is now to prove its
sun-resisting power.
Nothing will Withstand this heat.
The fire bricks themselves melt under It
and for that reason the intense rays are
SO regulated as not touch the side Of the
retort.
The rays Of the sun are collected by