ROMANCE INTO REALITY.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1923, Page 4

ROMANCE INTO REALITY.

LONDON. February 20. Science is novel' very fur behind tlie romantic novelist. The wildest imapninjrs of the writers of ticticn are often turned into accomplished realities liefore a dozen years have passed. Storytellers dreamed and wrote ol the submarine and the aeroplane and wireless, and science pi inaptly made their dreams come true. To-day -cienee i- concerned with another lit the vi-ions of the writer—the vision of the time when vc shall derive enei-ey. v.lietlier in the form of j fuel or food, direet from the sun which is is- real source, when if.' laboratory ■ will take the place of the cm.' mine, the oil well, and even the held. Actual csi'ei iiueuts v. It’ll some of the • first synthetic substances made with lijilit were -cell ye-Lordav at the Royal Institution. Albemarle-stri'ct Piccadilly i when Professor lleilhron showed how synthetic supir—made with We aaeiry i of the ultra-violet r.y-. :•.« biverjuiel Fiiiversitx'-■■-behaved it-olt in all 'says t as a model supir with wl.c.li it was compared. Professor Heiibi'on exp: cs'-'-d toe ■ view that it will sooner or later he possible to perform in tin- Inborn to: y all the marvellous reactnr teat take place in the microscopic hi! oratory ol the living cell. and that a-: nature s ]nswe * -are more lulls' i m.lerstood. iiioiuoise heiieiiis to np'id Hure will fteei mu I'lx'l'erimeiits are in prod c-s at l.iv- . | ei-jui i| lo determine just what pari • ! i !ilitiyl! (the pven culmirinn mnt- ) | I-. :• of j hiur-' aitd i >r tin i lay in trn.i|.ii! e the "uei'e v oi !he sun s ray>. , ndoioph;, 1! it-, li' up: < at- '''nm the ro- • cent in\csi iup 1 1 ions oi .Pi olcsso; s lieil- , broil end Ihdy to have a powerful 11l! >' in the yellow < oleurinp ' .atici eare- ■ tin. which is | resent in every p'oon . leal. A tiny tuba cl tin'- . nel'oy-ti'up- . j pintt stil.'lanee. obtained from several . j Imiulredw emlii-- of cai roiu was shown. | The time will eome. said ITole'.-pr Heilhnoii. when we shall lie dependent i for supplies of fuel mi photo-synthesis. . and for supplies i f food :e well. 1 1 m a new sm nee on whiidi the existem c *■ I ] the world may depend. I