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The stove simply -mid capab;. 



producing a tremendous heat, and from an actual trial 

 in testing, before the thcrmo-e were added, allowing 



all the dampers, etc., to be out, an it full play. 



within twenty minutes of lighting the fire, such heat \\ as 

 generated that louer parts of the iron furnace melted like 



This Klectrical Furnace, this Magnopile i actual 



work an F. M. F. of 96 volts, with a i 115 



ohms. This resistaii. not have been more than 10 



ohms, and better result- t be obtained. The 



at tlu rate of about 6V/. per 10 hours. 1'iof 

 Silvanus 1*. Thompson who, on al occasions, has 



kindly given me suggestions in the construction of 

 the Magnopile, advises me to make it known. Through 

 other pressing engagements, I have been taken completely 

 away from this work, and have not had opportunity to 

 complete it commercially, but it is certainly only a matter 

 of time and detail. A Magnopile will assuredly be 

 completed, and will, in the future, be a comm< 



SUCCt 



After attending the British Association this year at Hath, 

 and hearing the address of the President of Section A, 

 describing electricity as "The Thing called Flectricity," 

 I am induced to offer, after a two-years' silence, these facts 

 and thoughts to the scientific world the true explanation 

 of the phenomena of Flectricity. 



nleigh, Lriffstfr, 



October, 1888. 



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