The Problem of Increasing Human Energy: With Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sun’s Energy

An Unabridged Edition of the original published by Century Illustrated Magazine to include, but not limited to: The Onward Movement of Man – The Energy of The Movement – The Three Ways of Increasing Human Energy – The First Problem – How to Increase the Human Mass – The Burning of Atmospheric Nitrogen – The Second Problem – How to Reduce the Force Retarding the Human Mass – The Art of Telautomatics – The Third Problem – How to Increase the Force Accelerating the Human Mass – The Harnessing of The Sun’s Energy – The Source of Human Energy – The Three Ways of Drawing Energy from The Sun – Great Possibilities Offered by Iron for Increasing Human Performance – Enormous Waste in Iron Manufacture – Economical Production of Iron by A New Process – The Coming of Age of Aluminum – Doom of The Copper Industry – The Great Civilizing Potency of The New Metal – Efforts Toward Obtaining More Energy from Coal – The Electric Transmission – The Gas-Engine – The Cold-Coal Battery – Energy from The Medium – The Windmill and The Solar Engine – Motive Power from Terrestrial Heat – Electricity from Natural Sources – A Departure from Known Methods – Possibility of A “”Self-Acting”” Engine or Machine, Inanimate, Yet Capable, Like A Living Being, Of Deriving Energy from The Medium – The Ideal Way of Obtaining Motive Power – First Efforts to Produce the Self-Acting Engine – The Mechanical Oscillator – Work of Dewar and Linde – Liquid Air – Discovery of Unexpected Properties of The Atmosphere – Strange Experiments – Transmission of Electrical Energy Through One Wire Without Return – Transmission Through the Earth Without Any Wire – “”Wireless”” Telegraphy – The Secret of Tuning – Errors in The Hertzian Investigations – A Receiver of Wonderful Sensitiveness – Development of A New Principle – The Electrical Oscillator – Production of Immense Electrical Movements – The Earth Responds to Man – Interplanetary Communication Now Probable – Transmission of Electrical Energy to Any Distance Without Wires – Now Practicable – The Best Means of Increasing the Force Accelerating The Human Mass. —- ISBN: 9781603868709 | ISBN10: 1603868704 | ISBN-13: 978-1603868709