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Northern Advocate, 9 April 1914, Page 2

>Mr Balsillie, a young Australian wireless engineer, has produced rain on six' occasions. It seems, (says an exchange) to be on a -payable basis,

but Mr Balsillie will answer no- questions about it, and his assistants are as silent as the dead. When the experiments have .been conducted on a grander scale tongues will be loosed. and the public will be given the -whole story. The necessary apparatus for big experiments is now being made, and.it is. hoped that the inventor will then be able to make commercial use of his patents. It is understood that one "difficulty has been that the ■ condensation of aerial vapours by wireless waves' has the effect also of producing lightning. The trouble is to protect the apparatus and the operators from serious hurt, as they are the centre of the electrical disturbance. This result has been but only after the severe injury of two plants. When the' vapour descends 'it comes heavily. 1 It is visible,rain, and it can be directed on to a given area. All,Mr Balsillie's experiments have been conducted at night time, not to secure secrecy, but because condensation of vapours and the 'breaking-up of clouds is easier in the cold night atmosphere. . ,