HARASSING THE ATOM

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 September 1921, Page 5

HARASSING THE ATOM

POSSIBILITY OF ILLIMITABLE

POWER

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGIIT Received Sept. 12, 9.10 a.m. LONDON. Sept. 10.

Addressing the British Association for the Advancement of Science on "Can we harness the atom?" Professor Richardson declared that Sir Ernest Rutherford's discoveries at Cambridge made the artificial transmutation of chemical elements an established fact. If atomic energy could be intensified and controlled we would have at our disposal an illimitable supply of power, transcending anything hitherto known.