Dexter High School - Signet Yearbook (Dexter, ME)

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Exposed By the Multi-Ray . T eight o'clock on the evening of September 20, 1925, Ralph My- ers picked up his ,French gram- mar from the table where he had thrown it upon his arrival from school that afternoon, and, whistling cheerily, descended the short flight of stairs leading to the cellar of his home and to his laboratory, with the intention of spending a quiet hour or two in study- ing and experimenting, as was his cus- tom. As he pressed the concealed switch which released the magnetic lock on the iron door of the sound and fire-proof la- boratory, he little dreamed that he was embarking upon an adventure which was destined to result in the clearing up of one of the most baffling mysteries in the annals of the New York police force. , As the massive door slowly swung open, he entered and clapped his hands sharply. Immediately there burst forth a diiused glow, closely resembling day- light, revealing a small, low-posted room, with asbestos-covered walls and ceiling. Mounted upon the walls, and so located as to obtain the greatest effi- ciency combined with ease of operation, were slate switch-panels at one end of the room was a large alternator, directly connected through frictionclutcheswith a gas engine on one side :and an electric motor on the otherg wires leading into pipes buried beneath the cement floor, reappeared at the opposite end of the room, and were connected with an in- tricate mass of switches, reostats and meters, installed upon a large control board. From this switch board other wires led to a table beneath it, upon which were many queer looking instruments, -audion bulbs, rotary spark-gaps, geis- sler tubes and variable condensers-all of special xdesign to permit the use of 'high-frequency alternating current. The combining of this electrical ap- paratus was an invention of Ralph's, upon which the twenty-year-old boy had expended much timeuand money. He called it the Multi-Ray, and even in its experimental form it wasvery suc- cessful. With this apparatus he was able to see and to converse with persons who might be a hundred miles away, and to whom he was invisible, without their having to use any form of instruments. , Thus, he was able to attend the thea- tre in the city, twenty-five miles away, or to chat with' his chum next door, without leaving his own house.