MAN’S OATH TO DYING FATHER
• — _ SPENT 50 YEARS TRYING TO PROVE THE EARTH FLAT (By Air Mail. Special to the Gisborne Times.) LONDON; Jan. 12. A man was for over 50' years tucd to prove that the earth was flat died at Bath. He was William Edgell, aged 73, who when 20 took an oath to his dying father that he would prove the theory on which he worked ever since. In order to study the night skies Mr Edgell never went to bed, but slept in a chair. He erected in his garden a steel tube through, which he could watch the Pole star, and 11C evolved the theory of a flat, basinshaped earth with the sun moving north and south across it. He con - ‘ tended that the Polo star was only '6,000 miles away and that the sun was no more than ten miles in diameter. -- Mr Edgell invented a free-wheel for bicycles), an automatic weighing machine and an airless tyre.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12472, 6 February 1935, Page 7
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