Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1916 — Electric Fact and Fancy. [ARTICLE]

Electric Fact and Fancy.

The radioactive mind of Charles P. Steinmetz does not lead him into romantic excursions dealing in a Flammarlon or a Tesla vein with the future of electricity. He sees ahead of the present development of lighting systems and power plants an evolution sufficiently wonderful without a startling innovation.. Here, for instance, is a lamp which will give light by power made as it is held in the hand, and here is a flashlight which will facilitate the autophotography of shy forest denizens. Many are the devices for destroying the monopoly that night has held in the absence of the sun. The moving picture is to gain from improved ways of producing and projecting the illumination. The motorcar and the railway train have much to gain from intensive ex. perimen t In the constructive era that must come after the “devil’s carnival of demolition” electricity will take a leading role. This is no time for man to plume himself that he has “harnessed the lightning.” He has merely Begun to apprehend the potentiality of the twentieth century magician.—Philadelphia Ledger.