AN ALLEGED ATOMBREAKER.
' : : -♦ j .. '■. . ; - OUJt '* OWS * COERSSPOraiKT.) LONDON, September 24. Dr. T. F.Wall, of Sheffield University, has told a Central News correspondent that he believes ho will bo able to break up the atom and control its energy. ■ "'''•'"..• Since spring Dr. .Wall has been experimenting with., a "death-ray" machine, and it is suggested that the electrical energy produced .by this machine can be so cohcehtratetl ." and cHrected .that the atom can be broken up. Dr. Wall' explained . thai the power he eonld project by means of his machine on to a very. small object was equal to one-third of that generated by the entire Sheffield power station. When modifications and different ar--rangemehts of the coils in the machine had been completed, said Dr. Wall, the power.would then :be so great that it-.might wreck the whole University. Th© experiments were dangerous, but the nest few weeks would see tho completion of liis labours, and perhaps the atom would be, broken.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18220, 3 November 1924, Page 15
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159AN ALLEGED ATOMBREAKER. Press, Volume LX, Issue 18220, 3 November 1924, Page 15
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