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Continuing from last month. The scalebuoy infomation.
This particular document is from the 1940's,
it was provided by Jim K in Melbourne Aus.
I
would like to thank my wife Leonie for retyping the faded
document..............Ken
Section 1.
Owing to the bulk, the diverse nature and the difficulty of publication
of the research work that has been carried out at Auckland, New
Zealand, on the "Scalebuoy Effect", it has been found
necessary and expedient to divide it up into five sections as
follows:-
- A description of the appliance, its historical background,
and a suggested electro-physical explanation of the method of
action.
- The "Scalebuoy Effect" in relation to the sedimentation
rate of various colloid structures.
- The "Scalebuoy Effect" in relation to the sedimentation
rateof various colloid blood structures.
- The "Scalebuoy Effect" in relation to renal metabolism
and the urea output.
- The therapeutic Application of the "scalebuoy effect."
The Invention of the Scalebuoy Appliance.
This section, No.1. deals with the "Scalebuoy" appliance
its history, and its electro-physical relationships.
It is perhaps appropriate that it should commence with a short
biography of its inventor and a history of its various applications
up to the present time. The process was devised by the late R.H.S.
Abbott, Jar, an Australian who was born at Bendigo, Victoria.
He was the eldest son of the late Senator R.H.S. Abbott of Northern
Victoria, and was 54 years of age, when he was killed as the
result of a traffic accident in Melbourne in 1940.
In 1914 he held the rank of Captain in the A.I.F. and proceeded
overseas with the Infantry soon after the commencement of hostilities
in Great War 1. He was wounded by shell fire at Gallipoli and
was subsequently invalided to England where he was attached to
Australian Headquarters and seconded to the British Ordnance
Department (Inventions Branch). This unusual happening arose
out of an improvement in the Stokes mortar, effected by him.
At the termination of hostilities, he joined the staff of a firm
of merchant bankers in London (Close Brothers, Moorgate Street)
and ultimately became a partner in the firm. He was widely read
and had travelled practically all over the world. There were
few countries he had not visited and of which he did not have
an intimate first-hand knowledge.
He studied Electro-Physics in Germany and was a competent
authority on the application of this branch of science to industry
and industrial processes. Amongst other things, he interested
himself in the manufacture of motor spirit from coal, and was
responsible for improvements in the retorts used in this industry.
His work took him amongst machinery of all kinds, and he was
constantly struck by the troubles arising out of the formation
of scale and corrosion in pipes and boilers. In his spare time
he endeavoured to perfect an electrical method, whereby these
difficulties could be avoided, and after about twelve years of
work, the Scalebuoy process eventuated. Many ideas and types
of appliances were tried before the final form was adopted. At
this stage there was no thought of any possible therapeutic application
of the device. This came much later, as the result of the claims
that were made by employees at works where the process was in
operation. The ultimate device adopted was very simple in appearance
and easily applied. It consisted of glass globes or "buoys"
of varying sizes, ranging from 5cc to 200cc which contained a
globule of mercury and rare gases under various degrees of vacuum.
Method of Operation
The appliance was mechanically agitated in the water to be
treated, and the desired effect was produced by the following
factors:
- A radiation of wave-length shorter than that of visible light
which can be shown to have the capacity to "fog" photographic
films through opaque wrappings, such as paper and cardboard.
- The formation of an electro-static field in the neighbourhood
of certain types of buoy. This can be readily demonstrated by
its effect on light objects such as paper and ash particles.
These effects result from the friction between the mercury globule
(an isotrope of mercury high in electrons) and the internal surface
of the glass container or "buoy". A difference of potential
is thereby set up, the mercury becoming "positive"
and the outside to the buoy "negative". Under the combined
influence of this electrical factor and the vacuum, electrons
are thrown off from the contents of the buoy, some of which are
converted by collision (as in an x-ray tube) into radiation of
varying wave-lengths.
The electro-static field set up results in a "negative"
charge being implanted on or incorporated in the surrounding
medium.
Various types of buoy were manufactured, and the final investigation
of the types and their application in the industrial field was
not completed at the time of the inventor's death. The demonstration
of the capacity of certain buoys to alter the sedimentation rate
of human blood was made at Auckland on the same day that the
inventor was killed in Melbourne.
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