TALKING 1,500 MILES.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2662, 2 June 1908, Page 7

TALKING 1,500 MILES.

The human voice can carry 1,500 miles, and human' ears at that distance hear the spoken words. This, according to Dr. Andrew McConnell, is the future and perfected wireless telegraphy- H e declares be has proved the truth of his assertion by holding such long-distance conversations, through developing his own and another's receptivity to electric waves. Dr. McConnell follows all these discoveries with the assertion that there is a new electrical world outside of all this. "We must admit," he says, "that all these wonderful electrical discoveries are from dead, inorganic matter.

'"Alen have never understood what life is. I have made experiments which prove to me that human energy is electricity produced by chemical change in the cells, on the sama basis as th 3 electricity from a voltaic battery.

"In 1775, Galvani, by accident, found that the electrical current would make a dead frog's legs kick as if alive. In 1828, Nobili placed a live frog upon the circuit of a galvanometer, an instrument to detect the presence of an electrical current, and the frog deflected the needle thirty degrees. The first experiment proved that electricity 'will do the same work that animal energy will, and the second proved that a live animal has electricity, which is almost conclusive proof that animal energy is electricity.

"All scientists agree that chemical action produces electricity. Shielden found that the cell, the basis of life, is in a chemical change. Splanzani and Hunter found that breathing is a chemical change. Priestly found that digestion is a chemical change. Baxter found that all secretions pror duce electricity. So every process of Hife produced electricity."