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William Haight 1933  Popular Science - Sep 1925 - Page 66 RAINMAKER TO TEST DEVICE
WHITTIER, Jan. 17. 1933 (UP) — A new "Robbie the Rainmaker" has appeared
here, in the heart of the southern California orange belt, where he is
rather more welcome than the flowers in May— If he can produce. He is
William Haight, Los Angeles inventor, designer of the "electrodome,” an
impressive apparatus calculated to produce rain almost at need. The
invention is a large generator and projection equipment mounted on an
80-foot tower. His theory is that rain is caused naturally by diminuation
in the flow of electrical currents in the air. The Intention of the
"electrodome’' is artificially to produce this diminuation by the
projection of negative currents. Haight claims excellent results six
years ago with much lees powerful equipment. He now believes his
machine, mounted in the heights of Turnbull canyon on the edge of a
large citrus region, will produce rain for a radius of three miles.
Madera Tribune, Number 63, 17 January 1933 PDF Issue PDF (13.29 MB) - [Archived] Related Links:
ATMOSPHERIC
IONIZATION The method of atmospheric ionization to modify weather was
first patented by William Haight in 1925 (British Patent # 251,689). He
actually constructed two electrical rain-making towers in California.
Haight claimed that the earth contains a positive charge of static
electricity and the atmosphere has a negatively-charged region. Between
the two is an insulating region of dry air that prevents the positive
and the negative charges from combining to produce a lower temperature
that would cause clouds to condense and rain to fall. By discharging
high frequency alternating current into the insulating layer, electrical
contact is established between the positive and negative layers. The
temperature drops in the clouds, causing them to condense and rain.
Haight's British Patent # 251,689 The electric current through the Earth
is balanced by an equivalent electrical displacement through the space
above it. This displacement can be achieved by means of electrical
conduction through the atmosphere without violating any of the known
laws of physics. With energy transmission by true electrical conduction,
a very high voltage on the order of 15 million volts is needed on both
of the elevated terminals to break down the insulating air around and
above. The ionization of the atmosphere directly above the elevated
terminals is facilitated by a vertical ionizing beam of ultraviolet
radiation that leads to the formation of what might be called a plasma
high-voltage electrical transmission line.
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 Popular Science - Sep 1925 - Page 66 |
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