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Mr. Andrews demonstrated many of his apparatus to
me and told me of the work he was carrying on in extracting
neon from the atmosphere and purifying it. Mr. Andrews
informed me that they were using radium in making some of
their tubes for the demonstration of the conductivity of
various gases such as helium and neon. Mr. Andrews in-
formed me that they had purchased some radium bromide from
the Standard Chemical Company and were using it under a
condition which I should judge was similar to the use which
the Marconi Wireless put radium to. Their is no great
amount of radium used for this purpose but there is a poss-
ibility for it in the future. I made very careful inquiry
about the use of radium in storage batteries. Mr. Andrews
informed me that the General Electric Company had never ex-
perimented along these lines. He told me that a year ago
Mr. Flannery had requested information and informed them
that Edison had been working on the problem. Upon Mr.
Flannery's suggestion, Mr. Andrews wrote Mr. Edison per-
sonally and received an answer saying that extensive ex-
periments had been carried on without favorable results.
Mr. Andrews said tha t Mr. Flannery had replied to his letter
containing this information saying that the material had
been used incorrectly as a soluble salty and should be in-
corporated in metal electrodes in the battery.
Mr. Andrews has invented a small portable app-
aratus for producing ultra-violet rays, which may be connected
with any regular lamp socket. I have a circular of this app-
aratus on file. Mr. Andrews' principal work at the present
time is the purification of neon. General Electric Company
expects to be able to utilize neon commercially if the cost of
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