The San Francisco call., 1909-11-14
TRULY, here is a miracle. what is radium!


Perpetual motion" says scientist. With
speck of 1t clock till the end of time-or
with larger quantity I'd have permanent horseless
vehicle, with power and light station that
needs no fuel and knows no cessation day or night
century upon century,"
Radium" says another has to do with life itself"
series of remarkable experiments has proven that
radum will actually develop urchins from unfe-
cundated eggs Again In the of the larvae of
moths it held life in abeyance permitting few Of the
little to live three times long others 1t
was as If boy of 10 should remain as such for 250
yearsl
Will radum eventually solve the great problem
Of what is life? And then will it teach how to
prolong life, how to disease, how to actually
renew If not create life?
Will it help solve that other puzzle, what is cleo
tricity? and in doing enormously increase the
scope of this wonderful thing, matter force which
inventors have learned to apply in such remarkable
ways, but about which very little is really known?
Here staggering possibilities That there exists
q very substantial basis for them all scientists
agreed Thus far radium has remained laboratory
substance, narrowed in scope by its excessive cost
of production and the danger involved in handling It.
But with the discovery of large deposits of pitch
blende-a very probable discovery-and with cheaper
reduction processes may we not expect to find In
radium source of light and heat. illumina-
ton that needs maintenance, furnaces and
power plants that need fuel and have waste?
The worlds supply Of coal will sooner or later be
exhausted. That is certain. The question is, what
shall then be done for source of light heat and
poweri
Would Pipe Up Liquid Fire
One daring inventor very successful practical
man. says that he will bore through the earhs crust
thin point pipe up the liquid fire and generate
with it Other solutions, not remote In
sbiity include harnessing the Of the tides and
the heat energy of the
The development of and tide motors has
been retarded by the stormy surface conditions Of
the ocean; but, man points out why not adopt
this PLAN Sink huge platform to a considerable
DEPTH where the pressure is mighty factor and get
power from the tides by utilizing the change Of pres
the raft the volume of water above is alter
nately increased and decreased by the tidal flow.
Solar motors are already in for pumping and ir-
rgating purposes principally in California The solar
machine resembles huge inverted lamp shade The
inside of it is red with hundreds of mirrors all
fecting inward and upon a object,
trally located copper cylinder. Under the dazzling
rays concentrated upon 1t this cylinder gows like
white light and generates the steam power that
moves the pump.
After all 1t is but natural to utilize the suns rays
in this dynamic age. Think Of the untold power that
is wasted day by day! Coal which we now use
source of steam and electric energy is nothing
than bottled up sunshine stored up throughout
past Why not procure mechanical power to-
day direct from the burning lumnary just as get
daylight? Why obtain it upon vast scale?
So much briefly, for the future sources OF power.
In the meantime it is desirable in every way to
coal. That is possible in a number of ways partcu-
larly along lines of maritime transportation
Just recently small launch was run from New
York to Albany and back-a distance of 300 miles