Norwich bulletin., 1912-02-03
BOTTLE THAT INITIATES
 coSMIc CARPENTRY As This Earth is Kept Warm so With the Thermos Bottle.

York Evening Journal, follows:
 Many men were busy in the club, | MT. Daniel Cohalon was giving patri- | Otic dinner in honor of MT OD0nnell 1 The purpose of the dinner was to free | Ireland-a task that MT. Cohalon is | determined to carry out, if he has to | hurt the feelings of King Edward and | all the royal family.
 MT. John Devoy, the Gaelic editor, | was patiently explaining to P. P. Dunne that all Irish bills born under l the clock tower must necessarily be | bad, because of their being made by 1 Englishmen.
 Downstairs, MT. Murphy, whose req name is Cross & Co.,, was showing to his enraptured friends, a small bottle, ] that keeps cold. if you wanit it, or hot, if you want it to. About that bottle we want to talk
 The new invention is called the Thermos Bottle" Whether this bot tie will permanently do all the things that it is said to do we do not know. Those who wis hto find out must ex' periment through purchase. But we do know that the idea is a plausible cue, ana an intensely interesting one, as it actually initiates, in the little bottle, that you can carry around in vour
  ing this earth fit to live upon.
 This Thermos bottle will keep liq- uids ice cold all day or it will keep things hot for several hours, as ySu prefer. Whatever you put in the pot tlS at certain temperature, high 3S low. remains at that temperature, no matter what the weather may be
 For instance, a workman going off in the morning can fill the bottlc with het coffee and find it hot at noon Oh a cold winter day A woman going out to the park with a child ean put cool milk in the bottle and find it coo. hours afterward, even though it may have lain upon the grass in jae hot sunlight.
 These statements seem extraOTGi- nary; but, according to Mr. Murphy's explanation they are entirely simple. There is no chemical, no heating. nc ice. The bottle is constructed in such a way as to prevent heat from coming out or from going in If You put h0I stuff inside the bottle, the heat cannot come out. If you put cold stuff in side the bottle the neat cannot 80 in and spoil it's eoldness. And this is because the bottle is 0aut upon the lines of the earth on which you lHe.
 The bottle consists of two glass bottles one inside the other and joined together at the neck. There is an alr space between the two lot ties, or divisions, and from this ali Of ;le sir has been extracted, forming a vacuUm. as nearly compete us possi- ble And that is all tle secret there is to it.
 Heat does not travel tnr0ag a vae- uum Heat can no more go from one side to another of a chamber contain ing no air than you could go from one side to another of a room containing no floor. The mysterious thing we call heat must move from one atom of air to the next, and so on. If you take the air out of a space surrounding the bottle, the heat can neither go out nor go in. and therefore the inside must stay the original temperature. There could only be a slight loss or addition | of heat at the neck where the two are joined.
 You may ask, What has that got to do with the way our earth l. con- structed?" It has everything to do with it. This earth and the water on it, and the air around it, are supplied with a certain amount of heat. The inside of the earth is supposed to he very hot. perhaps boiling hot. In any case, we have only a limited amount | of heat here. in addition to that which comes to us from the sun in the day | time, and that sun heat is mystery we know nothing of it's nature or how ! 1t gets here. But We do know that the amount of heat which we pos l sess in the earth itself is limited And we know that the only thing that saves 1 us is the fact that the earth is built | like the TheTmos bottle, with a vac | uum all around 1t, and the heat cannot | go out through the vacuum.
 l There is no such thing in this world | as real vacuum. Nothing could be ab- solutely empty. But around us there i is a good enough vacuum-that is t, say, there is a mass of ether, so called | a substance so thin that we can hard ly conceive it. Through this ether oul | earth rolls, carrying it's atmosphere and its heat along with it. And aftII millions of years from now, thanks tc 1 this almost complete vacuum and nOn- conductor of heat surrounding us, Vi
 shall still have the heat with us.
 This ether that surrounds us, an in which our earth travels, is incon. 1 ceivably cold. If you could get to the | top of this atmosphere-it is not many miles highland stick your head 1 out into that ether your head woult be frozen solid in about a hundredtf 1 part of a second. If our atmosphere l should vanish and if the cold ethei 1 should close down and come in contac l with our earth, all the oceans anC 1 lakes would become solid Jumps of ice l and every living thing would instant. i ly be frozen stiff and frozen stiff for | ever, or until some heat creating cat, i aelysm should occur.
 | All the heat in our earth, all tht
 latent heat in our oceans, would b | absorbed in second by that cold ethel l around us except for the fact that th, 1 dreadful frozen ocean of ther throuel
 which our earth ship takes us is a b
 conductor of heat. It is to all intent and purposes vacuum, and this eartl l keeps its warmth miraculously wit
 utter, incopceivable cold all around
 It is as remarkable as though a baby 1 of three years should walk from her, to the North pole with bare feet anC come home without even a, frost bite
 We are glad to congratulate the in
 ventive mind that has initiated tn
 carpentry of the cosmos in plain glas
 bottles, that can be used by mother $
 and workmen, and picnic parties, ant
 others. It Is a good thing occasion
 ally to remember how much the Worlt owes to the ideas born in the iny6n
 tive mind. Everything that we have
 from corkscreW to a pile driver O.
 lightning express train is the materia
 shape of some idea, born in humal
 brain.
 If it is true that human ingenUit.
 has given us a bottle that will keel
 cold without ice, and warra withou
 fire, man may set up one more mne
 stone on the long, dreary road he ha
 travelled for thousands of years pas
 if Tn his journey from helpless, bruta ignorance to tie final complete knowl
 edge that will crown him real rule
 of the earth and his own destiny
 MISS BRuNELLE SURPRISED.