Prof. J. Ernest Woodland: demonstrations in twentieth century science

              1906

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Prof. J. Ernest Woodland
DEMONSTRATIONS IN TWENTIETH CENTURY SCIENCE


Informing and Entertaining::He Speaks with Authority


Prof. J. E. Woodland

POPULAR SCIENCE
The world of science moves so rapidly and with such tremendous strides that no text-book is up-to-date.  Before a book can be put through the press it is necessary to revise it.  This wonderful progress in science was one of the impelling reasons for the organization of lecture courses in the early days of the Lyceum, and it remains to-day one of the chief reasons.

Every community should have at least one popular scientific lecture a year.  If presented by a student who knows how to give to laymen the results of his scientific research, such lectures are eminently instructive and delightfully entertaining.  The community has a right to demand,

Starts fire without matches
 however, something more than can be learned from books and magazine articles.  The lecturer must speak with authority; he must come fresh from his laboratory; he must give an audience the results of the latest scientific research.

All these elements combine in PROFESSOR J. ERNEST WOODLAND, of the Mechanics Institute, Rochester, New York.  First of all, he has the scientific temperament that delights in finding out exactly the how and the why, and he also possesses that which is rare in scientific men, the ability to communicate to others the result of his experiments.

For his lectures PROFESSOR WOODLAND carries a large amount of apparatus with which the great principles of the latest discoveries in science are illustrated in striking and wonderful experiments.

He lectures well; his rich, strong voice enables him to be heard in the largest audience rooms, and his explanations are clear and comprehensive.  His experiments are conducted in such a manner that they are seen and understood by all.

NOTE HIS SUBJECTS, & SOME OF HIS WONDERFUL EXPERIMENTS


Receiver and apparatus for demonstrating the power or ether waves



Ether wave generator and the wonderful wireless clock





Drives nails with a hammer of frozen mercury.

ZeroAbsolute WHERE HEAT DOES NOT EXIST
This lecture deals with a wonderful scientific fact; a condition where heat does not exist; a lecture full of startling and seemingly impossible wonders.  During his many and marvelous experiments he shows: 40° below zero mercury frozen in a solid white hot crucible set in the heat of a flaming forge; ten pounds of mercury, frozen in a solid lump; a hammer is made of the mercury, with which he drives nails into hard wood; a snow storm produced with flakes one hundred degrees below zero; quantities of Carbon Dioxid gas solidified in the presence of the audience and passed through the audience in solid snowballs.  There is never a failure.  Professor Woodland has not had a failure in years.  His gases are absolutely dependable.  Audiences are never disappointed.


Snow balls with snow 100° below zero




THERMIT
The latest and most practical of modern chemical discoveries.  Thermit is a laboratory product, the action of which is spectacular in the extreme, producing a temperature of 5400° F., by which steel is melted in a few moments and run into molds or used in emergency to repair a broken propeller shaft at sea.  Professor Woodland gives startling demonstrations of Thermit by melting a crucible full of steel and pouring it out before his audience.  So intense is the light from the stream of molter metal that electric lamps take on the appearance of red hot hairpins.



RADIUM
This is known as the wizard metal.  It is a fire that burns for centuries, a light that never grows dim.  The most wonderful of modern science.  Professor Woodland makes use of a number of these mysterious tubes in his lectures and gives beautiful experimental demonstration of their wonderful powers.


Radiographs with Radium tube




ETHER WAVES and WIRELESS EXPERIMENTS
Since Marconi startled the world anew by telegraphing across the Atlantic Ocean without the aid of wires, public interest in this most wonderful scientific achievement has become intense.  Professor Woodland brings with him the very latest type of wireless apparatus and not only sets up before his audience a complete working Marconi station, but performs many wonderfully beautiful experiments.  The Wonderful Wireless Clock.  Bells are rung, motors started and stopped, cannons fired, mines exploded, electric lamps lighted and extinguished, and other experiments that rival the magic of Herrmann and Kellar.  This subject is of vast importance to the people of our day, and in the lecture Professor Woodland makes his audience really acquainted with the discovery and its importance in the every-day affairs of life.





TWO THOUSAND TIMES
Professor Woodland has lectured more than two thousand times on the various Chautauquas and Lyceum Courses of the country, and in every State in the Union.  His subjects are everywhere popular, so that large audiences come to hear him.  These few comments from the thousands of favorable notices he has received from the press, and from people in a position to know the drawing power and intrinsic value of these lectures, are representative of all.

For seven successive seasons Prof. J. E. Woodland has appeared before the Summer School of the University of Wooster, and is engaged for next summer.  What more could we say?  He draws the best audience of the course, is one of the most expert experimentalists on the lecture platform to-day, and always pleases.

(Signed) J. H. DICKASON, Principal.

Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, N. J. Secretary's Office.

September 21, 1906.

Dear Sir: Would it be possible for us to secure you this winter for another scientific lecture with experiments?  Our boys were greatly pleased in hearing you when you were here before.

Very truly yours,
(Signed) T. DEAN SWIFT.

Prof. Woodland has lectured to the cadets of Culver Summer Naval School for four successive summers.  His lectures combine so well entertainment and instruction, that we have come to consider them an indispensable feature of our course.

(Signed) L. R. GIGNILLIAT, Commandant.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., September 24, 1906.

Our audience at Epworth was highly interested, instructed and entertained by Prof. Woodland's two illustrated lectures.

(Signed) ELVIN SWARTHOUT, Sec., Epworth Assembly.

Dear Sir: The time has again arrived for the planning of our winter's course of lectures and you may recall having addressed our students last year upon Liquefied Gases, etc.

I think we did not have any lecture that elicited more interest and enthusiasm, and I should like to inquire about your other subjects.

(Signed) J. EUGENE BAKER, Principal Friends' Central School, Philadelphia.

Prof. J. Ernest Woodland filled two evening dates at the Weldon Springs assembly, this season, and gave exceptional satisfaction.  We have had many scientific lecturers at our assembly but no one who has satisfied as has Prof. Woodland.  He held with perfect ease an audience of five thousand people.  We believe he is the strongest on the platform to-day.

Respectfully.
(Signed) E. B. BENTLEY, Supt. Weldon Springs Chautauqua.

VINTON, IA., September 25, 1906.

Dear Sir: I write you to assure you of the keen pleasure and appreciation of our people at your two lectures given at our recent Chautauqua association assembly.  When one is able to combine solid scientific instruction with intensely entertaining features, as you did here, it is no wonder that your audiences were pleased.

Very truly yours,
(Signed) E. F. BROWN, Pres. Vinton Chautauqua.

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