Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1911 — SEEMS TO OVERCOME GRAVITATION [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SEEMS TO OVERCOME GRAVITATION

NEW YORK.—Edward S. Farrow, an engineer and inventor of this city, seems to have found a way to overcome, in part jit least, the force of gravitation. His invention Is based on the intensification of Hertzian wives. It has been learned that by doing this, a parallel and corresponding intensification occurs with the vertical force which controls gravitation. Thus buoyancy is added to an object held to earth or propelled toward it by gravitation. Discovered by Mr. Farrow and sponsored by himself and Gen. George O. Eaton, the device might be called the apex of a pyramid that has been building slowly for twenty-five years. In its completion, scientific subjects such as wave motion, aeronautics, wireless telegraphy, and the discovery of Hertzian waves have all played a part. Nor was the discovery made by a purely scientific theorist. Rather is Mr. Farrow a practical man, a native of Maryland Just turned his fifty-sixth year, a graduate of Baltimore City college and West Point, for eight years chief of scouts on the northwestern frontier and a consulting engineer, inventor and author. The bent of his mind is Indicated by such inventions as his combination shelter tent, in use by the army and serving as both a shelter and a cover for a soldier’s kit, and a military small arm combining the Springfield and the Blake mechanisms and the subject of some twenty patents. The army engineers are investigating his latest and most remarkable invention.