Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-14
MANUFACTURER OZONE.
Electricity Making Seaside Air For
Contested Cities.

When the thunder shower has rolled
rumbling and grumbing over the hills
t. the west. who has not noticed how
sweet and cle&r the atmosphere? 1t
is an old saying that thunder showers
'clear up the air and make it cooler.
Ask most people. and they will tell
YOU that it is the heavy downpOur of
rain. which has washed the dust and
impurities form the air and made it
sWeeter and better. But the scientist
Will only smile and mutter the single
word. ozone"
True, a heavy dOWnpour of re- in will
wash the dust out of the air but it
is the "OZone" which adds the crisp
bracing strength to the atmosphere
after violent thunder shower 1t is
the lure of ozone which attracts mill
ions from the hot, sitting cities to the
sea and mountains. 1t is the strange
quality of the life-giving atmosphere
which cleanses the blood ond builds
up the body. for ozone is form of
oxygen possessing great purifying and
steri,iZing germs. 1t is the long flashes
of lightning which disrupt the oxygen
gas, forming ozone. and this natural
phenomenon is taken advantage of,
ard We are producing ozone gas by
artificial machines utilizing heavy dis
charges of electricity.
Electricity has been set to making
seaside air for congestcd cities. Turn
a switch and an ozone breeze is start
ed in a crowded school. church. office
or bank. that has the vitalzing quality
of the fresh air of the big outdoors.
know to scientists since 1910. when
Prof. Schoenbein. of Basic, Switzcr-
land, discovered it. The European
scientists have devoted considerable
time OF its study with view to MAX
iE3 it of some service to the world
at large. Europe is in the lead of
the United States in this respect haV-
ing number of concentrating meth
DDS, which ar" in extensive use in
hotels. theatres. churches. factories
offices. stores. public buildings and
homes.
Until the last few years however.
American scientists, although admit
ting the great value Of the manufac-
tured as well as the natural ozone
made little use of it except as a germ
icide anddeodorant. it being especially
effective for such purposes.
With the development of cheap cleo
trical power. however. the ozonizer as
a commercial proposition became prac-
teal, and American inventive genius
was called upon to get busy and n
number of different varieties of ideas
were developed.
Europe, with its two years start
has made great strides. which outline
the herculean task set for ozone in the
United States in cleansing the Augean
stables of the cities of air which has
been breathed and rebreathed by a
thousand persons of varying degrees
of health, and filled with dust and
filth and gases. The war against tu-
berclulOsis takes on new and definite
promise of great progress What has
been accomplished and what tasks
ozone has been set to cope with abroad
shows the scone Of the field opened
by the success of the method.
In one country in Europe last year
over s7,000,G0O was expended in ozone
apparatus. In England one company
has been turning out between 700 and
500 generators a month. It's catalogue
is printed in 1S different languages.
Ozone is used in Paris. Berlin, st. Pc
tersburg. Nice, Lyons and about 40
different cities to purify their water
supply wholly or in part.-Electrical
Bulletin.