"Don't even know what it means."
"It relates to the properties of electric currents. My discovery is merely the concentration and directing of those currents. The apparatus is about the size of an apple pie, and so simple that I laugh when I think of it."
"But, Drowsy, you can't get so much power in such a little mechanism. That thing could never start a locomotive or an ocean steamship."
"Start it! A dozen of these little things fastened to an ocean steamer could lift it in the air to any height, crew, passengers and cargo, and drive it at any rate of speed and for any distance. And at no cost."
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Luther whistled. "Is Cyrus guying us, Doctor, or is he only dotty?"
Dr. Alton smiled, but gave no answer.
"After you had lifted the steamship up into the air," said Luther, "how soon could you get her across the ocean?"