Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1915 — WOULD BRING DOWN MOON [ARTICLE]

WOULD BRING DOWN MOON

Ambitious Schemes of French Enthusiast Fortunately Never Brought to Conclusion. - The electro-magnet, which is being successfully used in French hospitals for the extraction of bullets has manifold possibilities. Recently the United States Steel company, by means of electro-magnetic power, recovered from the bed of the Mississippi a car-!

i tom. The magnet used in this case was three and a half feet in width and weighed three thousand pounds. • The ease with which the cargo was brought to the surface gave rise to the suggestion that, given a sufficiently big magnet, sunken submarines might be similarly salved at short notice. About a. quarter of a century ago a French enthusiast published details of a truly ambitious electro-magnetic schema- By magnetism, he explained, the moon cocdn^-brought dfnfrn to

the earth, and allowed gently to rest on t)te Saharan desert. That done, It would be absurdly simple to avail ourselves of the immense mineral re* sources of our satellite.As It happened, however, the thing was never attempted—probably be* “cause it was disebyered that the mineral wealth of the moon would be a very poor substitute for the lunar tides of the ocean, the stoppage of which would tend to paralyse the wa-ter-borne commerce _of the ykok rwrt ayu-.-,. . ;r,.: cr.-iZi- -■“-4