Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-04
New Principle OF Motion Found.
RESEARCH, SOON 70 BE ABLE
THROUGH A FEATHER.

Z Earth bound man, though he has
made many attempts to overcome
gravity. is now promised help by Ed
ward S. Farrow of New York. who
claims to have discovered a simple
means of multiplying that mysterious
physical lava law that has baffied
mankind for ages and which was un
named until Newton formulated it a
couple of centuries ago.
The new principle, if successful, will
undoubtedly mean that mankind can
soar at will into space without a bur-
densome flying apparatus. that ocean
liners instead of cleavinS The foam for
a depth of forty or fifty feet will skim
along the surface. reducing the Euro
pean voyage 10 a day and n half and
revoluticni1ing the traditions Of ocean
travel.
The structural iron worker, equipped
with Farrow's attachment. in the fu-
tpre, can grasp the fifty ton beam and
carry it aloft on his shoulder as he
would 4 hod of brick, the elevator will
be Obsolete, the aviator will no longer
worry about fall, and his motor will
have no part in sustaining him in the
air, according to the man who makes
NiltSt tiSilliiS+
Mr.. Farrsw's invention is being test
cd by the United States government.
Farrow has given forty years OF his
life to testing the principle.
Recently Mr. Farrow suspended a
book from pair of scales in his lab
oratory and weighed it, The volume
tipped the scales at eighteen ounces.
TO the book he then attached Il me
chanical device in the shape of Il small
rectangular box when ne calls con
densing dynamo" and applied power
from a neighboring electric switch. As
the current set the wheels in the dyn-
amo whirring, the Indicator OF the
scales slowly reeeded until it stood at
fifteen ounces. Apparently the book
had lost three ounces of its weight. In
other words, one-siXth of the power of
grayitation between the book and the
earth had been overcome. \ law of
nature had to all appearances been
nullifed
The discovery of a mechanical
means to suppress gravitation is, of
course, Of the first Importance. 1t is
revolutionaTy--even sensational-to be
compared with the formation of the
an apple fall from tree and reasoned
out the why and wherefore of it. Ii
all of Mr.. FarrowNs claims fer his in
Nention are borne out by future tests.
he will stand as one of the great in
Ventors and scientists of all time: he
will have solved the most perpleNing
problem connected with aerial naviga-
tion-.the suspension in air of an aero
plane after its engine. through acct
dent or other cause, has ceased to
work.
That the claims of Mr.. Farrew for
his condensing dynamo are being Civ
en- the most serious consideration is
evidenced by the fact that the United
States government engineers are now
conducting experiments with a view
TO determining the value of the inyen-
ton to the army and navy. The re-
suit of these experiments will be an
nounced soon.
Mr. Farrow himself believes that hv
the Use of his dynamo the air craft in
warfare would be removed from the
field of uncertainty AND danger To pos
tive safety and mechanical efficiency
If q war balloon, floating over a hos
tile camp. was becalmed at an altitude
within range of the new aerial guns,
the latter would make its destruction
and the death of it's occupants a prac-
teal certainty. Owing to lack of wind.
insufficient ballast, or depleted gas
supply. II could not be removed from
It's dangerous position. But with the
condensing dynamo attached. it could
be shot up beyond the range of the
aerial guns and foated away to safety
on upper air currents. An aeropIane
that had suffered an accident to its
engine or other parts could be sus-
tanned in the air and floated away in
the same manner.
Mr.. Farrow and his associate, Gen.
George Q. Eaton, United States army,
retired, have filed claims for a patent
for the condensing dynamo. but the me-
chanical details of the continuance will
not be announced until the government
experts have computed their expert
ments 1t may be stated however, thai
the idea behind the invention is based
on the intensificaton of Hertzian waves,
which are used in the wireless telegraph
1t has been learned that by doing this a
parallel and corresponding intensified
ton occurs with the vertical force which
controls sravitation. Thus buoyancy is
added to an object held to earth or pro-
PEELED toward it by gravity.
Hertz demonstrated that rapid os-
cillating discharge of electricity. such as
that which may be established between
two knobs, produces disturbance in the
surrounding ether 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
lightning or the sparks between the poles
of n battery. But it was not until Hertz
advanced his theory that a satisfactory
explanation was given of such phe-
nomena. The mechanical application of
the Hertzian theory led to the perfec-
ton of the wireless telegraph.
Mr.. Farrow's Investigations were based
on a fundamental idea of creation ex-
pressed in II well known algebrac equa-
ton. The formula means that action
and reaction are equal. simultaneously
},pd eontrarily opposed Thus in push
anco froHf across a table there is resist
,,,raei,sr hand ffa as well as from the