Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1910 — ELECTRICITY IN BIBLE TIMES. [ARTICLE]

ELECTRICITY IN BIBLE TIMES.

Speculation* Which Explain Mira, clen by Supporting It* Uae. An electrical engineer of Munich named Stadenmann makes an ingenious argument to prove that the Jews in the time of Moses had an advanced knowledge of electricity, using passages from the Bible to -enforce his claim, says the Boston Globe. His theory of the famed serpent of bronze is that it was a lightning conductor and he also says that the temple.at Jerusalem was protected by metal joints connected witn the ground. The most ingenious speculation is in regard to the Ark of the Covenant, which was made of walls of wood covered on both sides with metal. If this _ connected with the metal teeth on the temple roof it would form a sort of Leyden jar charged with the electricity of the atmosphere and would give a shock to anyone touching it Mr. Stadenmann presumes that Moses gained his knowledge of electricity from the Egyptians. This ancient race certainly had a knowledge of many branches of science that it took the rest of the world thousands of years to learn. But the only proof that they were electrical engineers is one recently advanced by an archaeolofgst—that they must have had electric lights because their underground temples show no traces of smoke.