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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10034, 22 January 1896, Page 6

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TO THE EDITOK. | Under the above heading yoiil<-[ ! /5 given your readers in the Supplement to tin I Herald of 18th January an article purport* | iug to bo the views of the "Wizard «| Menlo Park." The article on the face of "l is so preposterous as to iucline mo ">. * | belief that this is another" Discovery o! Ark op Ararat"— other words, a hois-* E that some ignoramus in borrowed pl" m *}| has been using Edison's name as a means* I getting his absurd theory published, li"' 1 1 thinking that at the same timo he i« «''" I iug his ignorance of the subject treated <* | Should, however, it turn out what it PJ* | fesses to be" Edison's views on the subjeA I must still protest with what force I ci against acceptance of such a theory,»" however eminent Edison may he in 'j science of electricity, he (assuming he the author of the above article) only«»" that eminence in one branch of science patently does not qualify him or anyone ei to express a correct opinion or theorise on subject of which he knows little or notw Any person acquainted with the rudinU of the laws of the resultants of foi«' applied to practical navigation and se»w , ship must see at a glance the fundame error on which the whole theory J' "j' J consequently the views are as worthies' «* a scientific or.'practical standpoint * 3 .j study of 4he philosopher's stone or perp< motion.— etc. Ceo. CopParuell, Auckland, January 20, 18»