PATENT CERULEAN SUNSHINE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 510, 26 January 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)

PATENT CERULEAN SUNSHINE.

—o The Scientific American writes ; “ The cem ean Pleasonton (Gen. Bontwell Grant, Ex-Commissioner, not even a brother) has just been successful in receiving a patent for his blue light ve-etable and animal stimulator, fruetifyer, and panacea. Not an unpleasant entertainment, on the evening of our national extended eagle anniversary-, are those blue lights that shoot upward so zealously and then suddenly vanish without even a tail to tel) their story. You may be pleased to note the breadth of the inventor’s views and the modesty of his expectations, as appear in the breadth of his original claim, which reads we are informed, very nearly as follows : I claim the use of the combined natural of the sun in combination with the transmitted blue or electric light ot the sky, to the growth of the animal kingdom of nature, to the growth of fruits, vines, flowers, plants, vegetables, etc, and to the cure of diseases in men and animals.”

The term “ combined natural” is good, being both scientific and complimentary to his solar majestv ; and the discovery of the new dynamics of the sky in transmitting light deserves of itself a patent, with a seven years’ extension thrown in. The examiner, in his treatment of ihe case, well observes that the applicant cannot properly claim the use of the niichaimin<forces of nature, and such a monopoly could not be granted. He can only claim new and useful devices for applying and controlling the powers of nature. Ihe patent granted contains two clauses of claims, one for the method of utilizing the solar rays, another for the construction of buildings for the above purpose. The method consists solely, as far as we cm discern, in combining tbe sunlight with the blue light by transmitt.ng the solar rays through alternate portions of clear glass, and blue, purpie, or violet colored glass, and the construction of the conservatory con- i sists in making the roof and sides of such alternate portions of glass. What will the scientific men, who for many I years have experimented in the most! elaborate and thorough manner to ascertain the chemical effects of the constituent colored solar rays on vegetable ife, say to this patent? In a published paper read before the Philadelphia Agricultural Society, Mr. Ple:l----son ton says : “ If ”( a brief but sensible preface, that word if), “by the combination of sunlight and blue light from the sky, yon can mature quadrupeds in twelve months with no greater supply of food than would be used for an immature animal in the sawe period, you can scarcely conceive of the immeasurable value of this discovery to an agricultural people. You would no longer have to wait five years for the maturity of a colt; and all your animals could be produced in the greatest abundance and variety. In regard to the human family, its influence would be wide spread—you could not only in the temperate regions produce the early maturity of the tropics, but yon could invigorate the constitutions of invalids, and develop in the young, a generation, physically and intellectually which might become a marvel to mankind. Architects would be required to so arrange tbe introduction of these mixed rays of light into our houses, that the occupants might derive the greatest benefit from their influence. Mankind will then not only he able to live fast, but they can live well, and also live long.” , Mr - Pleasonton’s faith in blue light is such that the address referred to is printed on blue paper, “to relievo,” as he says, “ the eyes of the reader from the great glare from white paper,” and he expresses the hope of seeing “ this colored paper introduced for all books and periodicals ” The effect of blue light on the human brain should be his next theme.”