Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — A MOTOR RUN BY MULE POWER. [ARTICLE]

A MOTOR RUN BY MULE POWER.

Reno Weibourn, who lectures on science and performs experiments with apparatus on the stage, will be here the fifth day of the Chautauqua. One night up in lowa he had arranged his batteries and things to show the audience that a motor could be run by sound. “Now, this wheel will run very rapidly when the proper sound is made,” he told his audience. Just then a mule tied somewhere outside the tent began to pour forth a joyful noise. It happened to be just the right pitch to make the motor go, and the motor went. Weibourn usually makes the proper noise with a flute. This mule happened to sing the same note that Weibourn plays on the flute.