The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-21
TURNS SILVER INTO GOLD
A Noted Inventor Declares He Has Discovered
 the Secret.
He Building Big Factory in Philadelphia and Organizing
 S25OOOOO0 Company
BY RUDOLPH MELVILLE HUNTER. M. E- E. E.

into the other. then. the atoms them selves must be altered"
 That is merely a plain statement of facts. In order to change the atoms we must presuppose their individuality, composed of more inGnitesimal ele- mentary particles of ions. Such em- inent scientists as Professors Curric Lodge, Crookes and Houston assert that all atoms of so-called elementary substances of our text books are divisi- tble into primary particles or ions. the same in composition for all substances except as to their electrons or electric charges and their incident inductional capacity.
 It has been established beyond the smallest cavil of doubt that gold can be made from lead. copper, silver and other baser metals, but daily experi- ments in my laboratory convinces me that gold can be more easily made from silver. That 1t is actually possible to transmute silver into gold with great rapidity may be astonishing, but never thefess it Is an undeniable fact.
 Where 1t takes nature hundreds of years to produce gold from silver. mod ern alchemy can now accomplish the same result in the remarkably short space of from twenty to thirty min- utes.
 Alchemists of ancient times accom- plished nothing because they lacked the proper foundation as a basis for their theories. They found 1t impossible to make gold by mixing various substan- ces in crucibles and relying upon the method of making alloys to create a new substance.
 They were correct inthe idea that gold could be manufactured, but they were incorrect in their practices. It was the same way with the telephone; Reiss had a full conception of 1t In 1861, yet 1t remained for Graham Bell to give it to the world in practical form in 1876.
 The transmutation of silver into gold as carried on in my laboratory dem- onstrates and explains many interest ing things. Scientists assert that the phenomena presented by the new metal radium, in its wonderful subdivision establishes the proof of transmutation but 1t does not disclose anything as to attraction of gravitation, cohesion or chrystalization, all of which are daily demonstrated in my laboratory.
 Radium Proof of Transmufation.
 Mineralogists declare that a metal always chrystallizes in the same way hence, the crystal form is an evidence of the kind of element. but am constantly changing a crystal of silver into crystal of gold out of exactly the same constituents. As a result it ap- peals to me that the text books of our schools and colleges will need serious revision in many important particulars
 Let us assume, as an introduction to a more serious consideration of the theory of transmutation, that we great ly enlarge the atoms of silver so that we can readily see them and we will lind that each one will be composed of about 75,000 little particles, like plan cts, flying around with lightning-lik , rapidity, but at no time leaving the limit of their orbital range relatives y to each other and to their sun.
 We must first destroy the activity Cf these little particles which necessi- tates their de-electrification, so that their polarity and inductional capacity is nil. g.
 Assume still further. that under these conditions we collect these elements in a box. We gather up, as 1t were. 137 . 900 of them, impress them with the proper electric charge or electron and set them in motion with new orbital range and, behold. we have created an atom of gold. The specialization of this golden atom is matter which will be explained later.
 Powerful Apparatus Used.
 It must be taken into consideration the carrying out of such a process is not childs play, but requires a very powerful apparatus to hold the elemen- tary particles under proper subJection during the chemical and electrical treatment.
 By the time our new plant is erected and the heavier grades of machinery are installed we will be able to go ahead with our transmutation on a large commercial basis, and then 1t is but fair to assume we will reap the benefits of our years of patient endea- vor and industry.
 I want the world generally to take this discovery seriously, and the scien- tific community to benefit by the won derful field of research which 1t opens. I believe that the public are more ready today to accept 1t than they were two years ago. Very truly yours.
 R. M. Hunter.
 Hunters Active Record.
 The National Cyclopedia of Ameri- can Biography has this to say of the man who declares he has solved the secret of transmitting silver into gold. and has from boyhood been throughIy educated in the arts and sciences and matters of technical nature. He has a national reputation as an inventor in a very wide range of subjects, espe- cialIy those relating to electricity.
 His business career or thirty-tWo years has, day and night, been one con- tinuous delving into science, and would equal fifty years of ordinary business life Prof. Hunter is a member of tho American Institute of Electrical En- glneers, a foundation member of the Societe International des Electricians of Paris, and of other scientific bodies.
 His patents are are numbered by the hundreds, and date back into tho res. The Patent Ofice has special files and records to keep track of his numerous applications His patents extend into a large variety of the industrial arts, and are controlled by some of the most powerful corporations.
 He organized some of the pioneer electric companies of the country as early as 1881. since which time he has continually devoted himself to great electrical inventions. He is the fnven- tor of the trolley conduit and accumu- lator system of electric railways, which are fin use generally, his patents being fundamental
 The trolley car today was invented by him in all material respects in 1881. In 1882 he published a pamphlet de-