RE: Spring O´clock on the farm

[samstonehill]

Good point! Wooden rod with copper spiral around it should also work. It probably works better in fact, due to the spiral.

I came across this interesting image yesterday from 1755 which I thought you might enjoy.

It just blows my mind to see where we were at that time. Almost feels like the further back we go the more advanced our electroculture systems were.

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[bigorna1]

I see direct correlation. the further back we go, the less numbing down was in play hence booming creativity and technological advancement. I bump into real history videos showing transport for example and I am blown away. so much suppression. this is already changing happily.
Interesting how in the drawing, it seems the plants sit on an elevated deck, isolated from the ground.. would that harness cosmic energy only..? nice find.

[samstonehill]

The only useful text I could find on it:

In 1755, Benjamin Martin had promoted, in his General Magazine of Arts and Sciences, a proposal for 'perpetually electrifying the Plants and Fruit Trees of an artificial Garden'. He argued that as electricity is now well known to be somewhat more than a Matter of mere Curiosity, inasmuch as it has been successfully applied to the Cure of several Disorders of the rheumatic and paralytic kind … also it is well known greatly to promote Vegetation in Plants; and doubtless may be found of use in many other cases, if it were applied in a Proper Manner, I mean so that it might be rendered constant or perpetual, and not momentary and instantaneous, as in the common Way of using it. 16 Thus, he proposed a machine with two glass globes generating a constant supply of electricity to stimulate an irrigated garden (see Figure 5). While Martin's proposal seems never to have been realized, by the 1790s, Erasmus Darwin was expressing a well-accepted opinion when he noted that 'the influence of electricity in forwarding the germination of plants and their growth seems to be pretty well established'.

Taken from this link: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-Machine-for-a-Perpetual-Electrified-Garden-from-The-General-Magazine-of-Arts-and_fig5_322717384

So it would seem based on these words that the machine in the image was never actually made. Though I am curious to know how two glass globes generate a constant supply of electricity?

[bigorna1]

wow. there seems to be so much we do not know and will have to re-member.