Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — A Dream of Copper. [ARTICLE]

A Dream of Copper.

The dream that is said to have revealed to a young chemist in Pennsylvania the secret of tempering copper cannot be accounted among the idle fancies of the brain should his experiments prove as successful as they promise. It is a practical vision that supplies a formula to experiment upon that may result in restoring what has for centuries been considered a lost art. The psychological part of the Pennsylvania incident does not show, however, that the dreamer was blessed with an outright revelation. He had long been experimenting with popper in an effort to obtain the required hardness that would make it cut steel, and, like a shrewd American, he hgd in view the large reward said to have been offered by the government for the discovery of such a formula. This task naturally affected his sleeping as well as his waking hours, and it was subconscious suggestion that at last gave him a clew to what he sought. A sample of tempered copper, sent to Washington, is claimed to have withstood every test.