Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1931, Page 34

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, NEW DEVICEFREES ENORMDUS ENEREY 50,000,000-Volt Currents to | Aid Transmutation of Metals. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 6 —By a de- vice almost as simple as Franklin's Kite, R. J. Van de Graaff, a young American scientist, produces enormous voltages of electrical energy His discovery will be developed imme- diately at the Massachusetts Institute of ‘Technology to 15,000,000 or 20.000,000 volt capacity for experimenting with the possibility of transmuting the ele- ments on a practical commercial scale. This revolutionary electrical develop- ment is announced by the American In- stitute of Physics, a new scientific or- ganization backed by leading American ‘hysicists and directed by Dr. Henry A. | n. Van de Graaff’s first machine will be displayed Tuesday night at the inaugural dinner here of the institute. While at Princeton University as a National Research Council fellow, Van de Graaff developed a machine which produces great electrical energy much as the old-fashioned endless chain in & well fills a large bucket with water. Electricity Accumulated. | Van de Graaff's endless chains are endless belts of 5 and 10 cent store silk ribbon. They gather electricity on their surfaces by passing close to brushes connected with direct current generators. This electricity is carried metal sphere the size of a bushel basket. ‘There another brush takes the electric- s 0 AN FLONK ity off the ribbon and deposits it upon the inside of the sphere. | But electricity won't stick on the in- side of the sphere, it gathers im- mediately on the outer surface. 8o the sphere accumulates a charge, just like filling a water bucket. One of Van de Graafl's belts carries positive electricity to one sphere and the other belt nega- tive electricity to the cther globe. ‘When the globes are fully charged the electricity discharges between them in a lightning flash. With apparatus costing but $90 Van de Graafl pro-| duces a 1,500,000 volt discharge. Van de Graaff plans globes 15 feét in diameter. It is estimated that the device can be enlarged to a 50,000,000~ volt power. v Forsees Great Importance. Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technolcgy, said that the amount of energy avail- able from this apparatus will be so great that “the experiment opens the possibility of transmutation on a com- mercial scale.” Transmutation of elements the mythical “unlocking the energy of the atem.” It does not mean as popu- larly supposed that any vast, untamed source of power is likely to be turned loose upon the world. Man gets back only what he puts into the atom-smashing. But he may get the involves | unlocked energy out in a more useful form. He may transform one element into | something else, lead into gold for ex- | ample. This transformation is not a | certainty, but transmutation on an | atomic scale is already a demonstrated fact. This “atomic scale” is too minute | for practical use, belng just a pro- phetic finger. Germans who wish to leave the na- tive 1and now must pay a tax of $25 each. WOODWARD THE DOWN STAIRS STORE New and Different— Dormitory - Roughies Of Wool Jersey _ $7.95 Every college girl, and every other girl, too, who has seea them, has decided right then and there that her wardrobe has not really been complete, after all, The “them” in question being just absut the newest thing in pajamas, and just about the smartest, teo. 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Simon of Kansas. | | Some States have not yet chosen their | | representative * TOHUSKING NEE Shucking Champions and Fol- | zations have planned to_provide food | and lodging, an SC-acre fleld has been lowers From Corn Belt | designated as an airplane landing fleld and a parking place arranged for hun- Gather for Contest. dreds of cars A Nation-wide radio hook-up will en- able city folk to hear the cobs strike the bangboards. 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