The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-21


 nance of ancient history called aiche- my, has always been classed by modern science with perpetual motion ana the elixir of life, as dream. Yet one ol the foremost American inventors say he Is turning silver dollars into L4 carat gold, and as president or szo, 00O 900 concern he Is building a hail million dollar factory in Philaoelpn,a1 a to manufacture gold by the ton. Inis man Is Professor Rudolph MeiNi,e Hunter. His record makes the scien.il ic world hesitate to ridicule whae would be called insanity in almost any one else. MT. Hunter has been granted 3sO patents at Washington. Most oi them were electrical discoveries ana ue- vices upon which a large part or lne present efficiency of electric raliroaos rests.
 He was a pioneer in manufacturing smokeless powder and the invention oI penny-i in the-s slot machines. All tnese and many other achievements entitle the inventor to a respectful nearing even when he tells how the master art of alchemy" has been discovered. Great electric power. high pressure ana expensive machinery are used Tn tne process, which he keeps secret. Lit.ie pellets. flakes and blocks or golo ne shows as evidence. These he says were once United States silver dollars fresn from the mint. More interesting stiii are some strange porus looking tao- let's a little larger than dollar. some of these have a half yellowish. halt whitish gleam. like a mixture or soIo and silver, others are all silvery, eX- cept a speck here and there or the yer low metal These. he says. are speci- mems which had gone through but part | of the process. They still preserve roughly their original form after meet | ing some influence powerful enough to change their nature.
 Ali metals are alike according to MT. Hunter except for one thing, the elec- l trio arrangement of the atoms ana io''s M | in the molecules. Just how these tiny | parts of the molecule arrange them selves with the aid of the mysterious electric charge called the electron even Mir. Hunter doesn't know. He consiu- CTS it a sort of electric life, and his dis covery consists in temporary deadening g l this life. When deadened all metals | are alike. and can be walked up asaail | in the form of gold as well as any oth- | CT metal
 Inyentor's Own story of Alleged Dis | covery.
 Tn less than a year there will be erec- ted on Broad street, near the PhiIao sl- phia mint, a manufacturing plant whlcn will cost nearly half million dollars | This plant WILL D0 CqAAPPS0 "%~NA | chinery of my own invention, capaoie of manufacturing practically an unlim- ited output of gold.
 The enormous profit in the transmit tation of silver into gold can be readily | discovered when we take the following rough figures for an argumentatiVe pa- sis: .,,.- .,.. cents worth of pure silVer Tn ah AiheiA can silver dollar.
 Put that silver dollar through the se- cret process of which am alone mas ter. and 1t will increase in value about thirty-fiye times. or, roughly speaking the gold secured in the transmutatioh will be worth about $19.2h.
 If would cost as much to secure the necessary change of one silver dollar into a golden nugget worth nearly SEQ as 1t would to transmute a ton of ths same metal. |,
 When our manufacturing plant is conSpIeted it will be possible for me 10 transmute several tons of silver into golden bars just as readily as 1 now transmute small silver pieces Into gold- on nuggets.
 In order to protect those who have entered the corporation, I have placed the secret of my process in a safe de- posit vault, which will be at the dispo- sition of the Board of Directors of the company in the event OL my oSdbh'
 It has been assumed in the past that there are between seventy and eighty distinct elements. Today we know that this is not true. It Is now accepted by scientists of original research that all metals are composed of one primary substance, and that, whether the metal is gold or silver or copper depends only upon the grouping and electronic con dition of the primary particles or ions.
 Metals of lower atomic weights are all positively transformable into met als of higher atomic weights. Gold differs from silver only in the follow ing particulars: Its atomic weight is 1866. against 1O8 for silver, 80 that its atom is nearly twice as heavy and therefore contains almost twice as many primary particles of ions.
 It's electron or polarized condition is different due to the different grouping of the Ions to make up its atom, and consequently in its normal state 1t Is electronegatively disposed to oxygen instead of electro positive, as Is silver; nitric acid therefore will not combine with and dissolve gold, as 1t does sil- yer.
 The different polarization of the gold atoms and their resulting molecules induces a different specialization than that of silver, and hence reflects only the yellow rays of light. whereas sil- yer equalization causes the reflection of all the rays.
 The specific of gold (1s.3) differs from that of silver (10.4) only because 1t contains almost twice as many pri- mary ions or ultimate particles in the same volume.
 Taking the recent statement of Pro- lessor Garrett P. Serviss, who occupies a high plane in the scientific world. that the atoms of our metals are un = doubtedly divisibIe into minor parti- cles, the force of my argument can be more clearly seen. Professor Serviss says: "The different metals are what they are by virtue of their atoms. An atom of gold Is one thing and an atom of lead another thing. To change one