The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26
IS TRYING ID DEFY EXAMINATION LAW Unique Discovery Made By
 FarrOw
  HOW TT SUCCEEDS Reduces Weight of Book from Eigh- teen to Fifteen Ounces By Invention of "Condensing
 Dynamo"

| words, one-sixth of the power of gravita- | ticn between the book and the earth had | been overcome. A law of nature nad to all appearances been nullified.
 | The discovery of d mechanical means to
 suppress gravitation is, of course. of the | first importance. It is revolutionary even sensational-to be compared with the l formation of the law of gravity itself. If 1 all of Mir Farrow's claims for his inven- tion are borne out future tests, he will l stand as one of the great inventors and | scientists of all time He will have l solved the most perpexing problem con uected with the aerial navigation-the sus- pension in air of an aeropane after it's engine. through accident or other cause, has ceased to work.
 War Balloon Could Rise That the claims of Mr. Darrow for his
 "condensing dynamo" are being given the most serious consideration is evidenced by the fact that the United States govern ment engineers are now conducting se- ries of experiments to determine the value of the invention to the army and navy. The result of these experiments will be | announced in a short time. Mir. Farrow | himself believes that by the use of his invention the aircraft in warfare would he removed from the field of uncertainty and danger to positive safety and me- chanical efficiency. If a war balloon float ing over a hostile camp, was becalmed at an altitude within range of the new aerial guns the latter would make it's destruction and the death of it's occupants a practical certainty. Owing to lack of wind. insufficient ballast or depleted gas supply 1t could not be removed from it's dangerous position. But with the 'con- densing dynamo attached, it could be shot up beyond the range of the aerial guns. An aeroplane that had suffered an accident to his engine or other parts would not be dashed to earth, but could be fioated away to safety.
 MT. Farrow and his associate, Gen. George o. Eaton. have filed their claims for a patent for their "condensing lyna- mo- but the mechanical details of the contrivance will not be announced until the government experts have completed their experiments. It may be stated, how ever. that the idea behind the device Is
 based on the intensification of Hertzian
 waves. which are used in the wireless .ei- | egraph. It has been learned that by doing ! tliis a parallel and corresponding intens. l fcation occurs with the vertical force which controls gravitation. This buoyan- cy is added to an object held to earth, or propelled toward it by gravity.
 J1tllZ utlllOuSlIdlcu lldI Il very TdplQ oscilating discharge of electricity. such as that which may be established between two knobs, produces a disturbance in the surrounding either which takes the form Of electric waves penetrating space with the velocity of light. Previous to this discovery, which was announced about 40 years ago, scientists had known of electric currents passing through the air without a visible conductor, such as the O flan antlxe Ixntr. 4l.- of battery. But it was not until Hertz advanced his theory that a satisfactory explanation was given of such pheuom- ena. The. mechanical application of the Hertzian theory led to the perfection of the wireless telegraph.
 Vertical Forces vs. Downward
 Alr. Farrows investigations were based on a fundamental idea of creation ex> pressed in a well known algebraic equa- tion The formula means that action and reaction are equal, simultaneous and con- trarily opposed. He found that mechan- ical devices for controlling electricity also apply to gravity, regulating or intensity ing the force of this attraction of foreign objects to the earth. By intensifyng the motion of the electrical waves through suppositious ether there will develop coplponents in all directions. If this force or motion acts vertically it will, by the law of reaction, diminish force such as gravity acting, downward toward the earth. For want of a better name Mir Fsrrow calls this force, when acting up- ward, vertical component"
 MT. Farrow discovered that an intensi- fcation of the Hertzian waves caused a corresponding intensification of the "ver- tical component. Supposing that a Hertzan wave has a force of say 10000 and that this is increased to 2O,OOO more. the force of the vertical component" l would be correspondingly increased. And if this vertical component" resisted the force of gravitation then the latter would be partly or wholly neutralzed or SUD- pressed.
 The "condensing dynamo invented by Mir Farrow increases the force of the Hertzian wave and this increased power is transmitted to the vertical compo- nent." The latter thus intensified offers a proportionate resistance to gravltation and the force of the latter is reduced, 1 thus giving buoyancy to any object to
 which the condensing dynamo may be at | tached Any aeroplane equipped with one | of these dynamos of sufficient strength
 may be sustained in air after it's motive l power has ceased to work By turning on , the current of electricity there would he | produced a horizontal. circular, fiat shest. 1 so to speak, of Hertizian waves radia ting outward for mile or more on every side | of the aerial craft. The effect of all this would be, in a measure, to suspend the craft by the edges of thin magnetic
 plane of influence. mile or more in hor.- zontal circumference.
 l This discovery has. not been made by | a purely scientific theorist. MT. FarroY | is a practical man. He is a graduate of i \Vest Point and for a number of years
 was tactical instructor at the institution For eight years he was chief of scouts
 on the northwestern frontier. having been sent out to take charge of this body of
 men directly after the Custer massacre ! Later he became a consulting engineer ! inventor and author His Military En- | cyclopedia," embracing the military
 knowledge of the world, ancient and mod ern. foreign and domestic, is the reeoa. rjzed standard authority on all military affairs.
 It was while cadet at West Point. a.
 a member of the class of 1876, that MT
 Farrow became interested in wave mo tIon that complex phase of physics whicf
 enters into the explanation of many 0
 the forces of earth and air. and it wa
 through the study of the phenomena pre-
 sented by this motion that there wa
 rlanted in his mind the seed which wal
 later to be developed into his remarkab
 invention.
 The Mystery of the Eagle,
 During the eight years that he was il
 command of the Indian scouts. Lieutenan
 Fsrrow had ample opportunity to con