Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 50, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 November 1939 — Eels Drive Motors [ARTICLE]

Eels Drive Motors

Electric light has been obtained from the queerest sources, even lemons. At a meeting of the New York Zoological society, Mr. Christopher Coates, an official of the aquarium, recently demonstrated that an entire battery of neon lamps could be run by fixing the terminals to a large live eel from South American waters which is knowm to give off a tremendous discharge. He clamped two flexible metal bands round its body, connected these to the neon lamps, and tickled the eel into activity. At each discharge the bulbs flashed brilliantly. When a small electric motor was attached to the bands and the eel again tickled into action, the audience saw the flywheel spinning violently. Finally the eel was induced to generate more electricity, which worked a radio Keep your body free of accumulated waste, takeA7>. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. 00 Pellets 30 cents. —Adv.