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In Reply to: Water Finder posted by rusty6 on June 24, 2020 at 11:34:42:
AUTOMATIC WATER FINDER. The invention, patented by Messrs. Mansfield & Co. of Liverpool, Eng land, of an automatic water-finder, will probably be of much service to agriculturists and pastoralists in many places, where, as in the interior of Australia, the rainfall is uncertain or insufficient, and water must be obtained from underground sources. This invention has been brought under the notice of the Queensland Government by Sir Arthur Morgan and a cable message has been sent, making fuller enquiries. Its im portance to pastoralists and settlers in the western districts, if it proves effective, ean scarcely be overrated. To discover the existence of sub terranean springs where the artesian bore could be sunk and a supply of water reached, has often been difficult, and sometimes, after considerable labour and expense in making experi ments, no satisfactory results have been gained. The man with the divining rod, doubtless, has frequently been success ful, and probably his sensations, and the movements of the hazel twig, have been but a manifestation of certain occult forces affecting his peculiar mental or physical organism, which science has now tahulated and seized upon and made to play their part in an automatic manner. Most of the water-diviners have a large number of successes to record. They have been conscious of a subtle influence from the soil where water has been stored, which has affected tbem powerfully, frequently bending their arms downwards as they held their rod, and making them tremble with excitement, and become charged with a kind of electric energy, which those who have touched them have felt. In these remarkable statements , made respecting water-diviners-some 1 that it required a measure of credulity to believe-tlieie was ei ough to sug gest research, and the possibility of discovering the principles and laws by which these effects were produced. This invention, caHtd " 1 he Auto* matic Spring Finder," has been made as the result of many experiments with vertical air currents, as they were affected by underground water courses and metallic deposits. It was found that these having consider able conductivity, gave a certain direction to them. A large number of various instruments were tried, by which these currents could be recorded, and at last it w as discovered that a coil made of metals curiously combined, and left unconnected with any battery or electrical current, would make a certain record. 1 he apparatus consists mainly of a wooden case in which is the coil, and over it is placed a dial marked with degrees, and fitted with a long feebly magne tised needle. To use it, the tripod upon which the instrument is to be placed is to be fixed with the white line on the top pointing to the magnetic earth, and if there is water beneath it, or certain metalliferous deposits, the needle will become agit ated, and, according to the amount of water or metal, oscillate more or less violently. It has been tried, it is stated, with much success in England and on the Continent, and in some parte of West Africa, and it doubt less will be a boon, in many arid countries. It will be worth a trial in Austral#.
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