TRYING TO MAKE RAIN
SIR OLIVER LODGE RENEWS EXPERIMENTS ELECTRIFYING THE AIR Farmers all over the world will follow with interest the efforts now being made by Sir Oliver Lodge, to find a way to produce rain at will. This famous 87-years-old scientist and spiritualist has been led by the recent dry period in England (they called it a drought) to pursue his experiments with renewed energy. “Sir Oliver has for many years been studying the problem of causing clouds to discharge rain by artificial means,’ his secretary said this week. “He believes that electrification of the atmosphere would yield rain at will. He has been in correspondence with Sir Ambrose Fleming, who is also working on this problem.” A plan put forward by Sir Ambrose is to send aeroplanes up 10,000 to 15,000 feet, carrying steel bottles containing highly compressed air. “If this were omitted through suitable jets and impregnated with fine flint dust this electrified dust could be discharged into clouds at. a considerable height and cause the clouds to discharge rain,” said Sir Ambrose.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1938, Page 3
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