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Analog | Newspaper Archive Anomalies, Oddities Underground, Radium Secrets, & Lodestone 101
Aerial Flight Secrets and the Ingersoll Watch Company
An 1897 California newspaper article titled "The Secrets of Aerial Flight Revealed" is discussed, claiming gravity can be overcome with radium. Analog highlights the Ingersoll Watch Company as one of the largest historical purchasers of radium, ostensibly for glowing watch hands. He hypothesizes that the radium was actually being used for more advanced purposes, such as energy storage in crystals and secret aeronautical tests.