Arizona republican., 1912-05-29

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 use gets dirty or stops for any re,s ! on, and often it can be repaired and put back to work again bv the aviator while still in mid-air The orloIe IS combination airship :nd automobile If the operator is scoOt- Ing doWn the highway and chooses to do so, he can touch button spread his wings and soar away over the fence or into the empyrean bhe That is the theory of it. hut as stated. it has not yet been accom- plished.
 But the big thing is the atmospher- Ic electricity device. It was received with skepticism at the patent office It was unbelievable that q man unknown to fame should hold in his hand the secret for which such men as Edison and Tesla have sought and the officials in charge promptly told him so. He tried to explain his mechanism but they failed to understand it and told him they could not accept his application for filing. until they could see some better demonstration. not Withstanding he was accomp: nied by Samuel GOmpers. president of the American Federation of Labor to whom Meyers had been sent with proper recommendations He was much disappointed and at once un- dertOOk the making of perfected model but it was seen that his time Was too short Then he constructed a crude machine but nevertheless one that demonstrated the principle he was working on and explained it. He finally made his idea clear. GOmpers was sent for and turning to Meyers he was con graduated and told, It's all right. put in your application"
 He says the machine will work any. where but it is better to have it elevated q little where the air cur rents are undisturbed 4 drawing he has with him shows the plans of a machine built on scale designed to be large enough to illuminate q city IS big as Phoenix. The ap- paratus is set on tower, like a wind mill, 900 feet high. On this is placed what Meyers for want of better name calls an "abSOrbcr," :" and in it's construction is found the magnetized steel plate, afOremention- ed. the 3bsorber containing the main principle of Meyers discovery. This is the mechanism that attracts and acCumulates the electricity from the air currents, the positive coming from one pole and the negative from the other. and each having separate nf wires the accumulated electricity is carried to a transformer on the ground. of the "step-up" type From there it is taken to the motor, if power machine, or, after being suit ably transformed for lighting. to the lamps, either arc or incandescent.
 The flow of electricity is constant, s.id Meyers last night When 1t emerges into the transformer It is in the form of direct current. It will absorb the electricity night and day. and will work whenever the wireless will work. I can put up a plant to light such building as the Adams Hotel for about $1.500, and one of the principal items of eX- pense is the cost of the towers, the wires. and the m; gnetiZing of one set of plates, which is part of the secret of the treatment which makes it respond to the accumulatiOns of the atmosphere
 How about a storm or an abnormal amount of electricity?" Meyers was asked.
 .I have thought If that too said he "I have made what l call a modified form of circuit breaker such as is commonly used as lightning arrester on telegraph lines In case of a storm the accumulation would become suddenly Overch; rged, pos siblv, and as the electricity would not of itself flow back into the air, the result might he disastrous. So I send it down into the ground whenever the voltage rises above a certain amount"
 Meyers also described the manner in which the idea of the princlple came to him. It was inspired oN Reni: min Franklin's experiment. lie has always been a believer in gong backward for principle before you can % forward" He has found that the position of his accumulator makes 2 material difference in the way the electricity is accumulated, and ne now places the machine in such way as to intercept the polar cur rents between the north and south magnetic poles. and gets better result than when they are placed Ill an east and west position.
 The absorber is a device slmlE'f to the armature of generator, round with sensitiZed plates completing the circle While the greater volume ol electricity is drawn in through the north and south plates the others ada somewhat perhaps, but the particular reason for having the pl; tes com nlete a circle is for the use of the mechanism on shipbOard. In that event. every time the ship changes it's course ever so little, different nlates would be thrown into the north and south line, and whatever direction the ships course took there would always be plates toward the earths poles.
 Meyers says th%t he hopes to be abIe to put up his first machine for demonstration purposes, in Phoe- nix He feels grateful for what has booo dona for him and would like mo-