Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-22
Electricity Provided for
Farm and Village With
Breeze as Generator-FirSt
One Proves Success


LONDON, April IAN alluring
vision of a new and merrier Eng
land is presented by an inventor
with faith in the future of his WIND
towers.
These, it is claimed, by means OF
wings set at an elevation of 200 feet,
will produce electricity for all puf-
poses of the farm and the village.
One of the towers is working sue
cessfully now on a farm in East
Prussia.
The holder OF the English patent
rights is T. Wolk OF London, Rus
sian, who in 1916 voluntarily en-
listed in the British army, and IN
1922 became a naturalized British
subject.
AS an outcome of study in Russia,
Germany and France, Wolk is al
ready, though still comparatively
young, recognized as an authority
in the domain of practical engineer
ing.
Known as the Venti-Motor, the in
vention has produced, it is claimed,
a happy marriage between wind
power and electricity
One of the most familiar of Eng
fish institutions, the windmill, is to
be elevated to a supreme guardian
ship of the main material interests
of the British people.
Towers of concrete, running in the
highest case up to 200 feet, will, by
means of great wings, only two in
number, up to III feet in diameter,
capture the force Of the wind.
Unlike the wind turbine, which is
propelled, the Venti-motor exhibits
it's value as a repeller. The power
exerted against the wings (repeller)
passes, by virtue Of its being the
pivot or hub" around which the
wings rotate, into a steel bar, which.
by turn. carries it into the base
ment of the tower, where it is trans
formed into electrical power, useable
either instantly or subsequently,, for
a variety of purposes.
1t is declared that a tower will
work efficiently in any country; it is
adapted equally to HILL plain or VAL
ley. 1t is further claimed that there
will be a. continuous supply of
power, whatever the direction of
the wind.
If the inventor is sound in is
calculations, the advent of the Venti-
motor may mark revolution.
No longer will there be any need
to buy or feed horses; neither will
any fuel be required
Labor will be greatly reduced, for
electric power will do in one days
work that would occupy men fifteen
days.
The soil can be dug deeper and
more extensively aerated; field op
erations will be greatly expedited;
manures can be created, nitrogen
can be drawn from the atmosphere
as desired; crops can be electrified
and horse-drawn wagons will give
way to the automobile truck.
An observation as to the pros
pective effect on agricultural labor
draws an arresting picture from
Wolk's mind.
Disaster to the laboring agricul-
turist?
why, the very reverse will be
the case. 1t will preserve to Eng
land, and immensely multiply her
greatest treasure, the surest source
of her strength-the man who lives
on the good earth and the clean air,
the man WHO renders his country
the greatest service.
The wind tower spells saliva ton
for the small man in agriculture;
and it is not improbable that it will
draw many thousands of the people
from the towns back to the country.
Indeed, if the wind-tower is accept
ed in this country industry. at any
rate the smaller industries. can be
transported into the country whole
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