MARVELLOUS INVENTION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 247, 11 July 1908, Page 10

MARVELLOUS INVENTION.

SEEING THROUGH A BRICK WALL. THE "LYNNOSCOPE " EXPLAINED. The marvels of the lynnoscope, tho invention by means of which it is claimed anyono can see round tho world, were explained to a London " Expross" representative by tho inventor. All tho old difficult problems of making peoplo invisible, seeing through a brick wall, and corresponding direct with friends in New York aro solved'if tho lynnoscopo fulfils all its promises.' ■ 'lilr. John' Wellesley Lynn,. the inventor, claims that ho has' proved by actual experiments that-his-instrument will:— (1) Allow people in London to see any . one in: America'instantaneously. (2) Reflect any written message.. !at onco to the most distant places. .. , (3) Enable any person to see right " through.'any human being or solid sub-' stances as if thoy wero not there.

"Tho lynnoscopo.consists of throo distinct instruments," said the inventor. "They are used in reflecting images like a mirror, and are not connected by -wires or worked by electricity. - - " These instruments aro: — (1) The operator. (2) The transmitter. (3) Tho receiver. "The operator is like a. large square' with a holo'at each end, mounted on the end' of a telegraph polo ;-while-the-transmitter is similar box. It contains, however, a telescopic arrangement , which focusses the image from the operator.. :• ' V "At the other eiid,' whrfe-the.imago-is.to bo reflected, is another box-liko : arrangement;: At one end it has a largo brass'funnel like a phonograph; and.at the other a screen, on which the image is ireflected-as' in a'lookinggkiss. .- ■-' '•. - ■; : "All that is/necßssary in;sending reflections any distance'over land-is to fix a transmitter on tho highest available point—a hilltop or a tower—and'the image is. correctly reflected in the receiver.

" It will be possible to present an. actual reflection of the Derby being run to an audience at a matineo at any London theatre. I do not mean a living cinematograph picture, but an actual reflection of the ovent. '"I have secured perfect reflections at a distance of 186 miles, and I have photographed scenes eighty miles away.. ■I experimented at Buckingham Palace, and tho, lynnoscope '. mado a lady who was present-fa niece of :Mr. Frith, the . veteran artist—apparently invisiblo.'. .. "Sir Thomas Lipton' and other gentlemen have_ interested themselves in tho invention, and . : Mvo written expressing themselves perfectly satisfied with tho experiments. " I have boon at work on tbis invention for nine years, and was working all the time on a' pre-concoived scheme.. A curious accident, however, helped me to tho solution. "I was working in my study with my apparatus, and looking'through saw what appeared to bo a hole in place of tho. floor. I found to my surpriso that I could see right through carpet and floor to a transmitter in the cellar. " I have been awarded a diploma at tho Inventions Exhibition for optical discoveries, and am willing to show what I can do 'before any committee of scientific exDerts."