Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1895 — PROGRESS OF ELECTRIC SCIENCE. [ARTICLE]

PROGRESS OF ELECTRIC SCIENCE.

*The Wonders of Electricity bul j*- Half Disclosed as Yet. I The adoption of el ectricity as a m# tive power marked an epoch in th< inechanical and industrial world, Electricity is an ever-present giants ready to do the work _of the world at soon as men learn to put the harness oi him. lie is now partially harnessed, and what he does is a faint prophecy o! what he will accomplish as soon a» ,men have learned to bind him more thoroughly. He is a giant of infinite strength, of infinite desp tch, and un» imaginable possibilities. The numberless uses to which electricity may b« put is beginning to bo understood. The large buckle in the harness about this tireless monster was fastened when he was made a message bearer over tin telegraph wire and across the submarine cable. Another buckle wat fastened when he was not only made to carry the messages of men, but to carry their tones .and voices by means of the telephone, lie was still further under the domination of man when ho was made a toreh-bearer at night, and the electric light flooded oui cities with nearly the brilliancy of noonday. Electricity is now largely supplanting horses on our street-cars, and the time is nearly at hand when it will have entirely superceded them. The greatest authorities on the subject say that the electric motor Will 3oon supercede the locomotive, and that steam, like a tardy laggard, will be dismissed for the more messenger, electricity. ft is also predicted that electricity will soon be used to impel our ocean steamers, to run our mills and turn our factory wheels. It has been predicted that within Bfty years there will be many long rows of electric lights across the Atlantic, so that collisions in fogs and darkness wiil bo made impossible. It has also been predicted that farmers will sometime light their farrnt by night with electric lights, and thus produce two crops a year, as, it is said, crops grow much faster in the light iban in the darkness. No ono will accuse a man of such ’gigantic accomplishments as Mr. Edison of being wildly theoretical or visionary. Yet he believes that serial navigation will, in a short time, bo made practicable by means of electrical appliances. Perhaps this will bo the next great invention which will startle the world. Electricity is ono of the modern forces that is transforming the industrial condition of the world. Electrical science is still in its infancy, bul snough is already known of this subtle and cdysterous force, for us to predict that, through its agency, an industrial and mechanical revolution, such as the world before has never seen, wiil soon be accomplished. Reassurfhg. Guest (nngrlTy) “Confound your awkwardness! You’vi spilt half that soup down my back. 11 YVaiter at restaurant (heartily) “Don’t mind it sir. I’ll bring som« riSore. Bless you, thoro’s plenty of soup!”