Haslam's book carefully describes the workings of the machine, and it quickly becomes clear that this was a weapon of war, and that many of these machines had been deployed in London, installed covertly in cellars and staffed by French revolutionaries, undercover Jacobin assassins, bent on using the Air Loom's power to force Britain into a disastrous war with Revolutionary France. Their intended victims were various key members of the British government (led by the then Prime Minister, William Pitt).
London had been infiltrated by groups of assassins who lurked in coffee houses and theatres, where their intended victims were 'primed' by being tricked into inhaling magnetic vapours that would make them susceptible to the Air Loom's powers.
The Air Loom was a piece of advanced technology, but in the early part of the industrial age advanced technology often meant enormous machinery, rather than the increasing minutarisation that characterises the 21st century. The Air Loom was enormous. The mechanism stood seven metres tall and occupied a footprint of nine square metres, and it was constructed from oak with machined brass fittings.
Haslam's book tells us that the Air Loom was surrounded by barrels that fed noxious gases through oiled leather pipes into the main body of the machine. The gases were derived from substances including 'gas from the horse's anus', 'seminal fluid', 'putrid human breath' and 'effluvia of dogs'.
The Air Loom used recent developments in gas chemistry and the little known effects of magnetism or mesmerism to create magnetically charged air currents that could be directed toward its victims....<<<Read More>>>...
