the
receiving end. Any radio engineer knows that the original
sound waves are not transported, but merely their impress
upon the electrical radio wave. So, Drayle's disintegrating
and sending apparatus only transmitted the vibrations which
enabled his machines at the receiving end to select from a
more than adequate supply of raw material, in due proportion
and quantities, as much as was required for the reproduction
of the disintegrated entities.

I think that if Mr. Greenfield will reread the story, noting
the following references, he will agree that if the
hypothesis is accepted the conclusion is logical:

1--It is only Jackson Gee and not Drayle who speaks of
transmitting the constituent elements by radio (page 120).

2--The scientist, Drayle, says, (page 129) "We already know
the elements that make the human body, and we can put them
together in the their proper proportions and arrangements;
but we have not been able to introduce the vitalizing spark,
the key vibrations, to start it going." He does not say that
tangible matter can be transmitted by radio.

3--In the account of Drayle's preliminary experiments (page
122) there is no statement to the effect that the original
material composing the disintegrated glass was used in its
recreation.

4--There is nothing in the story to indicate that the
original physical composition of the disintegrated man was
transported, in any manner to any outside location. The
process of disintegration was necessary to obtain the
vibrations that would make possible their repetition, which
under proper conditions would induce a reproduction of the
original, just as a song must be sung before it can be
reproduced upon a phonograph disc, but which, once recorded
can be repeated times without number.

5--Drayle's question (page 124) "Have you arranged the
elements?" refers to the elements out of which all mankind
is composed and which Drayle has previously mentioned (page
120).

6--The narrator emphasizes this aspect of the discovery when
he says, on page 124, "I seemed to see man's (not the man's)
elementary dust and vapors whirled from great containers
upward into a stratum of shimmering air and gradually assume
the outlines of a human form that became first opaque, then