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RENO B. WELBOURN
THE MAN WHO HARNESSED THE SUN
LECTURES AND EXPERIMENTS ON THE MARVELS AND MYSTERIES OF MODERN SCIENCE




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THE two highest purposes of the lecture platform have ever been entertainment and instruction.

To happily unite these two has been the constant endeavor of lyceum talent.  But it has rarely been accomplished.

Measured by this standard the platform work of Reno B. Welbourn has always been a success.  He has appeared in many of the prominent cities of thirty-five states and Canada, and from all of them comes the common verdict that he is the one scientific lecturer who knows how to make profound thoughts interesting.  Perhaps to a higher degree than any other lyceum attraction he both entertains and instructs.  His experiments are wonderful in the extreme.  To use a recent criticism, They are numerous, quickly done and stunning in their import.  The dreams of humanity are made realities before the eyes of the audience, and nothing seems longer to remain in the list of impossibilities.  Far more strange and wonderful than tricks of legerdemain, his experiments have an added value of untold importance, in that every one of them is fraught with deepest meaning to the human race.  It will thus be seen that the Welbourn lectures are refreshingly different from other attractions, both in entertainment and instruction upholding the highest traditions of the platform.

That he speaks with authority no better testimonial could possibly be written than that he has received, at different times, the personal assistance of some of the greatest scientific men in the world.  About ten years ago, Nikola Tesla and Sir William Crookes, by the personal gifts of books descriptive of their own achievements, first inspired him to effort and pointed out the way.  Since then Sir Oliver Lodge, Lord Kelvin, Sir William Ramsey, Sig. Marconi, Max Kohl, Ernst Ruhmer, and many others, have given assistance of such value that without it the lectures in their present form could never have been written.

From this it must not be inferred, however, that Mr. Welbourn's work is merely a restatement of the work of others.  He is a scientist in his own right.  He was the first man in the world to successfully

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 utilize the energy of the sun for practical power; to send pictures to a distance through the air by wireless electricity; to use the electric echo for preventing the collision of ships in a fog; and to use ether waves for correcting a ship's latitude from the shore.  These and many other scarcely less notable achievements have certainly earned him the right to be heard.



IN THE YEAR 2000
A prophecy of the future wherein dreams become real.  This lecture was prepared at the request of hundreds of people from all parts of the country.  The invariable questions brought forth by previous efforts, night after night, were: Why not give us a bit of prophecy, and show us what scientists are doing for the future?Why not let us into the secrets of the laboratory, that we may cross the borderland of discovery and see in the experimental stage the wonderful things that future generations will be most likely to make practical?  The American people have always craved prophecy.  The magazines are full of it.  They recognize that all progress depends upon the ability of the people to look ahead and see what is coming.  Mr. Welbourn, true to his scientific training, prophesies only that those things will be which must be.  He meets the great problems of life face to face, and shows by many startlingly marvelous experiments, how they are most likely to be solved.



DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE
The wonderful story of the triumph of science over difficulties hitherto thought to be insurmountable.  Far from contending that all things are possible, it does contend that the world is moving very rapidly, and that what is impossible in one age is not necessarily so in the next.  As its name implies, it deals with seeming miracles many of which are calculated to stun the mind and stagger the imagination, and yet the wonder-workers themselves are all men and women of

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real flesh and blood.  In short, this lecture is to the world of reality about what The Arabian Nights is to the world of fiction.



WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK

Opie Read:
—Your lectures cannot be otherwise than great, because they are not only prophetic but vital.


Sam Jones:
—You give it to the people in the most interesting way.


Henry Waterson:
—You certainly vindicate the value of your work.


Will Carleton:
—You have my best wishes for success, both with pen and upon the platform.


George R. Wendling:
—I have always heard good words about your work, and you have my best wishes.


Captain Richmond P. Hobson:
—That was a great lecture.  The audience liked it, too.


Robert J. Burdette:
—May your laurels never wither.


Nikola Tesla:
—Your lectures have my best wishes for success.


Omaha World-Herald:
—It was very interesting.  Welbourn is a wonder.


Fremont (Neb.) Tribune:
—It was a mental feast in which all partook and which all enjoyed with equal pleasure.  There was not a flaw in the work.


Madison (Wis) State Journal:
—Welbourn's lecture was very interesting.


Syracuse (N. Y.) Herald:
—Throughout the lecture was exceedingly instructive and entertaining.


Tacoma (Wash.) Ledger:
—Mr. Welbourn's experiments are numerous, quickly done, and stunning in their import.  The dreams of humanity are made realities before the eyes of the audience, and nothing seems longer to remain on the list of impossibilities.  At times, when Mr. Welbourn becomes warmed up to the marvelousness of his theme, he displays an eloquence which holds his audience enthralled.


Cincinnati Commercial Tribune:
—Mr. Welbourn is a learned disciple of the great Marconi.


Louisville (Ky.) Times:
—The evening was one of keen enjoyment and great educational value as well.


Santa Rosa (Cal.) Republican:
—It was a novel performance for this community, and the experiments made while he was speaking and the many interesting points brought out kept the audience in a continual fever of expectation for the next idea.  Welbourn is certainly a wizard.


Binghampton (N. Y.) Press:
—One of the most interesting lectures ever delivered in this part of the country.


Uniontown (Pa.) Evening Genius:
—The experimental illustrations, to the ordinary layman, were amazing.



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