The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-05-28
NEW DISCOVERY IN
SCIENTIFIC WORLD

| May, J9l0, will be memorable date
in history. Halley's comet, and tho
confusion of astronomers, the death of
King Edward VII, are all notable his
torical events, but still greater are
two victories of science, that will
rank with other achievements that will
make this the most wonderful century
of all ages.
The ion, or germ of electricity, sim
gle atom, has been isolated, studied and
measured and the actual strusture of
the charge observed for the first time
by Robert A, Millikan, associate pro.
fessor of physics at the University of
Chicago. Prof. Millikan has proven
the indefinite "ionic hypothesis Of
Farraday, who gave his theory to the
world in 1880. He has proved the
. Kinetic theory that molecules of
air are in rapid motion and has meas
ured "energy of agitation" of these
molecules
While the scientific world is astound-
ed at the discovery, or rather proof
Iof theory, it receives the announce
ment as an accepted fact and from
now on calculations on certain lines
will be made upon accurate lines
within the grasp of man. Scientific re-
search in the field of electricity may
be counted upon now to reveal other
hidden causes of phenomena, electro,
chemical, ETC., that have resulted in
terrific explosions, air disturbances,
etc. We may expect soon other startl-
ing discoveries based upon the elec-
tric ion.
1t affords starting point in all
branches of science for new observa.
tions and tests, and is another stride
towards solving the no doubt last
problem of longevity.
simultaneously with the discovery or
the electric ion comes the news (made
public through fatal accident) Of
the actual discovery or re-discovery,
which upsets all scientific theories, but
which has been sought for centuries by
" alchemists' for transmutation Of
base metals into gold or silver, which
DIR. w. F. Lang, of Scranton, Penn,
has succeeded in accomplishing. DIR.
Lange claims that he has discovered
the means of increasing an atom of
pure silver by the addition of base
metals 100 times its size and weight,
the result being a silver mass as pure
as the atom. DR.. Lange submitted
samples to assayers, and even to a u.
s. mint, which were pronounced pure
silver.
No details of the secret are made
known excepting that a heat of A.
| 900 degrees is employed and that
deadly gases are evolved in the pro-
cess. Evidently the cost of the process
is large, and whether it can be made
commercially profitable is one of. the
secrets DR.. Lange remarked that he
did not have money enough to utilize
his secret and G. G. Dickinson, the New
York banker, while witnessing test
/ in DIR. Lange laboratory, became so
excited that he involuntarily APPROACH
ed too near the retort and inhaled
some of the deadly gases, which caused
his death.
| Mining men all believe that in ma
ture's great laboratories the process OF
transmutation is continually going on.
Like the electric ion, which is no doubt
the seed of life, there is probably an
other ion not yet discovered, and as
Flammofon thinks, in the depths of
the earth, deeper than ever penetrated
by man or can ever be reached, the
seed of all metals This ion of metals,
by the process of intense heat, cold and
pressure, passes upwards in vapor un-
til it impregnates other ions on the
way. These other ions inoculated are
set moving upward, seeking their af.
finities, until we find them in their
varied forms, but rarely in a pure
state. which when we consider the
method of formation and contact with
surrounding elements, is is a wonder
that any are found pure. Then we
must admit the possibilities of science