Note and Comment

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 15, 1902

IN certain arid districts of this country where the development of agriculture has made necessity the mother of invention, a machine has been devised for “harnessing sunshine” (the supply of this being always abundant), and by this means boiling water and generating steam power. The shape of the machine is that of a huge umbrella, its outer circumference having a diameter of thirty feet or more, and its inner surface being plated with about seventeen hundred small mirrors, so arranged as to reflect and focus the sun’s rays upon a boiler that occupies the position of a handle as to the umbrella. This machine is successfully used to pump water for irrigation in some parts of California and southern Kansas. Would that a corresponding energy might be developed by the rays of spiritual light in every individual upon whom those rays are focused through the third angel’s message.