Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1919 — TELLS OF ATOMIC ENERGY [ARTICLE]

TELLS OF ATOMIC ENERGY

Sir Oliver Lodge, English Scientist, Says It Is Used In Wire* less Telephone. Birmingham, Eng.—Sir Oliver Lodge In an address at the Midland institute on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the death of JflUiW Watt, Inventor of the condensing steam engine, touched upon the sub* ject of atomic energy of matter. He said that the first utilization Of this force was in wireless telegraphy. If the atomic energy of an ounce of matter could be utilized it would be sufficient to raise the German ships sunk in the Scapa Flow and pile them on top of the Scottish mountains. He hoped, he said, the human race would not discover how to use this energy until it had brains and morality enough to use it properly, because if the discovery were made before its time and by the wrong people this planet would be unsafe.