Chapter 54

He said, "If this is intended as I suppose and gather that the force to be used has to do with magnetism or electricity, or both. It may of course be that there is some other force for example, since that which proceeds from radium, must be used. And I have tried the latter, But only in a small quantity can I get it; but as far as I can be sure the cap-stone is completely impervious to influence and there must be some such insensitive material in nature that radium does not appear when it is dispersed through pitchblende; and there is no doubt material Others can be locked up.And these probably belong to that class of 'inert' elements discovered or isolated by Sir William Ramsay, and so it is possible that some mighty force is imprisoned in this aerosol box and thus possibly contains some unknown elements of our world , which will be launched upon its opening.”

This seemed to be the end of this branch of the matter but while he still maintained the steady appear