FIGHTING FIRES
EXTINGUISHING GAS FLAME. SOUND TONAL VIBRATION. A SCI ENT IS !"S DEMO-XST R-A T f UIX. BY GAB BE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Feb. 9.30 1 a.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 2. Charles Kellogg, a Oalifornian scientist, gave firemen' a demonstration of extinguishing a ga-s fia>me two feet high by sound tonal vibration. Mr. Kellogg passed a bow, like an enlarged violin bow, swiftly across an a.liminium tuning fork, producing a screech, like an intense radio static. Instantly the yellow flame subsided to six inches and became a .sputtering blue flare. Another bowing completely extinguished it.
Mr. Kellogg claimed that future buildings, would have a scientifically determined pitch, with a screech for extinguishing fires tuned in from a central firehouse here, produced by a, much larger 'bow. He said that’the' General Elictrio Company wax experimenting with the device.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 February 1926, Page 5
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