Burnell R. Ford: electrical scientist

              U.S. OBSERVATORY AND EXPERIMENTAL STATION SUMMIT 
of
 PIKES PEAK




Burnell R. Ford

ELECTRICAL SCIENTIST




Called by Critics, 
The Edison of the Platform





THE VOICE OF THE PRESS AND PEOPLE



PHILADELPHIA, PA., EDW. C. DURFEE, SUPT. CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY.




Permit me to tell you that your lecture was the most popular on this year's course.  This is not only my individual opinion, but that of the student body, as I gather from reading the proofs of the forthcoming number of our school magazine.




BORDENTOWN, N. J., T. D. LANDON, MILITARY INSTITUTE.




It is a pleasure to tell you that our boys greatly enjoyed your very interesting lecture and demonstrations on 'Electricity.'  You have a rather unusual collection of interesting apparatus, and present many phases of electical phenomena in the most interesting and instructive way.  We will be interested to have you come to us again some time in the future.




ATHENS, ALA., W. K. GREENE, PRINCIPAL GREENE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL.




To say that your entertainment was fascinating and instructive for young and old is but a mild appreciation of its worth.  You accomplished the exceeding difficult task of presenting the marvels of electricity in a way that the average observer could understand.  We have had the rare opportunity of hearing many of the most prominent lecturers and entertainers on the American platform.  You richly deserve a high place among them.




SOMERSET, KY., J. P. W. BROUSE, SUPT. CITY SCHOOLS.




Mr. Ford is especially pleasing in his platform work, perfectly natural in what he does and does it in an unpretentious manner.  His lecture was one of the most interesting and instructive that we have had on our platform in the past several years.  The youngest as well as the oldest could see some of the wonders and appreciate the marvels which have come from electricity.  Another most pleasing feature of Mr. Ford's work is that he is original—all of the apparatus which he uses was made by him.  I know of no single attraction that is worth more to the community in a modern educational sense than that given by Mr. Ford.




PIQUA, OHIO, GEO. C. DEITRICH, SUPT. PUBLIC SCHOOLS.




The scientific lecture given by Burnell R. Ford in our Lyceum Course was one of the most satisfactory numbers that we have been able to present to our patrons.  Not only did Mr. Ford make his demonstrations intensely interesting and instructive, but his lecture had an appeal that gripped the audience to him from beginning to end.




CLEVELAND, OHIO, REV. S. E. BREWSTER, PASTOR LAKEWOOD CHRISTIAN CHURCH.




In the realm of science, as a demonstrator of the mystery of electricity, Mr. Ford stands without a peer.  His lecture is an educational feast, as well as an entertainment of the very highest class and order.  Mr. Ford might truly be termed 'Mr. Edison's successor.'




NEWTON, KANS., KANSAN-REPUBLICAN.


Mr. Ford's lecture is of interest to old and young alike.  He performs many wonderful and amusing experiments.  The lecture is one of the kind that makes lecture courses popular and the committee is to be congratulated in securing such a scientific and entertaining number.




PUEBLO, COLO., CHIEFTAIN.


Mr. Ford scored a big success.  The dazzling rays of electricity produced by high frequency transformers delighted the large and appreciative audience.  The showing has never been equalled in Pueblo.





250,000 Volt Discharge Produces Electrical Storm




This remarkable photograph shows Mr. Ford's supreme experiment.  Here we see the production of a terrific electrical storm by a discharge of 
250,000 volts of electricity.
  This experiment will thrill your people as nothing before has done.  Livid tongues of fire, gigantic electrical pressures calmly obey the command of the scientist.



3,000,000 Volts of Electrical Energy Released




Here is an attempt to photograph the radiation of 
three million volts
 of electrical energy into the atmosphere.  The picture, of course, does scant justice to the actual effect.  With the aid of High Frequency Oscillator Mr. Ford and his assistants secure a display both wonderful and inspiring.  A strictly educational test.




Electricity, Thru the Air, Sets Off Explosives




The experiment shown in this photograph is a thrilling one.  The scientist and his assistants are shown in the act of setting off high explosives by means of electricity 
sent thru the air.
  The importance of this will immediately appeal to all since, in times of war, the application of this scientific discovery will prove of inestimable value.



Electrical Welding Thru the Human Body




Here is shown a remarkable demonstration of Electrical Welding thru two human bodies.  Stiff iron wires are forever welded, the current flowing from Mr. Ford to an assistant.  Capable of the simplest explanation, this experiment is nevertheless an awe inspiring one; one that will be discussed for days after the scientist has gone.




Submarine Destroyer Controlled by Wireless

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As a part of the demonstration pictured above, the Destroyer explodes a bomb sinking the submarine, the operations controlled by wireless instrument in the hands of Mr. Ford.  This demonstration will prove interesting at this time of world-wide cataclysm, proving the ability of American scientists to cope with the skill of the world.



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The Human Dynamo




The photograph shows the lighting of an ordinary candle by means of a stream of water.  In connection with this experiment, the lecturer becomes a Human Dynamo, lighting are lights by holding the carbons in his hands; handling 3,000,000 volts of electricity so that his entire body becomes charged.  A remarkable demonstration.





BURNELL R. FORD
SCIENTIST ENTERTAINER INVENTOR
A Popular Scientific Demonstration



T
HE late Elbert Hubbard described electricity as 
the juice.
  Since Benjamin Franklin brought it from the sky with a kite, no better, or more scentific definition has been made.  Yet the remarkable misunderstanding of the nature and properties of electricity seems to be general and permanent.  In the entire realm of popular education no one thing can be of more importance than to educate the people on what, to them, are the mysteries of electricity.  To do this in a scientific, yet plain and thoroly [sic thoroughly]entertaining way, is no small accomplishment.  The management, after much search and many discouragements, has found, in the person of Burnell R. Ford, such a man.




MR. FORD, all his life, has been a deep student, as well as a painstaking and successful inventor.  His achievements first gained nation wide prominence when the government accepted and used in its national sanitorium an apparatus of his invention for successfully treating the Great White Plague.  Other remarkable inventions followed rapidly, and quite recently, the world was startled with the announcement that Mr. Ford had devised a method of producing a Complex Combination of Ether Waves, and an instrument to control them, whereby the presence of a submarine could be detected, and a Wireless Controlled Destroyer accurately guided to it from any distance.  Whole pages in the greatest papers have been devoted to this wonderful achievement.




Mr. Ford devotes most of his time to research work and is now completing his most marvelous invention.  This placed upon an Airplane will generate an electric current from the earth's magnetism which will automatically indicate on a map before the aviator his exact location, making it impossible for him to get lost even in fog or darkness.  Also making effective bombing expeditions possible and yet be invisible to the enemy.




The program Mr. Ford will give, upon the occasion of his appearance in your community will, first of all, be of immense instructive value to your people.  In addition, they will be highly entertained with the matchless mysteries of this wonderful power.  A past master of platform art, Mr. Ford's entertainment is replete with vivid sensations, keen humor, and thoroly understandable explanations of scientific fact.  Never a dull moment occurs and the people are sent away with the recollection of having learned much during a time when they have been delightfully entertained.  By all means give your people the pleasure of Mr. Ford's instructive entertainment.





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