ARTIFICIAL LIGHTNING.
) A SYSTEM OF CONTROL
J THUNDERBOLTS AT WILL,
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] NEW YORK, May 4. A modern Thor stood in a steel cage at Schenectady and hurled thunderbolts nt n miniature village while he casually explained it all to thousands of radio listeners.
Lightning crackled and flashed, and thunder reverberated to punctuate the talk given by Mr. F. W. Peek, electrical engineer of the General Electric Company. 'A microphone set up in the cage made the iirafc broadcast of a thunderstorm. Mr. Peek revealed that through study tot' the effect of the man-made bolts, jwhich have been stepped up to 10,000,000 •volts by transformers operating from a 3ight socket, some of lightning's most dangerous weapons have been snatched away. "Wo make lightning for the same rca son the physicians cultivate germs in testiabes," !hc said, "We keep it under control and study its habits." Ihe lightning was loosed from an artij cloud, a coudenser which emitted '• .metrical explosions, darting At church aml « hoUMtops „ in tbo v jj lagC) symch was on an ordinary-sized table. &
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20263, 24 May 1929, Page 14
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