OAT-MADE MUSIC.

Shannon News, 4 May 1928, Page 2

OAT-MADE MUSIC.

While the leading lights of science have beeu earnestly engaged in seeking the origin of atmospherics, it appears that, in not a few cases, the real cause must have been litotally ( 1 under their noses. ’ ’ This, at all events, is the;*, opinion of a Washing ton experimenter, N. D. Parham, who points out, in a letter to the American Radio Manufacturer’s Association that there is a good deal of electricity generated in a cat’s fur. Although this form of generator is more or less quiescent at normal periods, Mr. Parham considers that interference may be caused when pussy parades on the backward . fence. In this case the more common audio-frequency manifestations may apparently he, augmented by feline radio-frequency phenomena.