LIFE WORK FAILS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 9 February 1935, Page 8

LIFE WORK FAILS

TO PROVE EARTH WAS FLAT v LONDON, 27th January. ' Air William Edgell, who for over 50 years tried to prove,that the earth was flat, has died at Midsomer Norton, near Bath, at the age of 73 years. At the age of 20 lie took an oath to his dying father that he would prove the theory, oil which be had worked ever since. In order to study the night skies Edgell never went to bed, but slept in a, chair and erected a steel tube in bis garden pointing toward the Pole Star, which was visible through it. He evolved the theory of a flat, basinshaped earth, with the sun moving north and south across it. He contended that the Pole Star was only 5000 miles away, and that the sun was only 10 miles in diameter. Edgell also invented a free-wheel for bicycles, an automatic weighing machine in,id an airless, tyre, _ '“Counting thiTCoughs !—Cough ! Cough ! Cough ! like little tearing fingers, damaging the delicate membrane of the lungs. Pulmonas would stop the cough, disperse the phlegm which causes irritation. Stop the cough—Now, with Pulmonas, proven most effective 1/6 and 2/6, Midget size 1 /-, from Chemists and Stores.