Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1895 — The Possibilities in the Electrical Future. [ARTICLE]

The Possibilities in the Electrical Future.

A correspondent in the Syracuse Standard signing himself A Dreamer, says: “Many trained electricians are working to give the world a cheap and practical storage battery. The moment this is accomplished what possibilities are before us! To say nothing of electricity to furnish inexpensive poworildildand,. water and possibly aerial travel, think of its domestic applications! Fancy a moderate sized windmill in or on therear of one’s house, when the air is in motion, hour by hour making and storing up the subtile fluid, to be drawn on at pleasure for heating, lighting, cooking, ironing, and other home uses; to charge the battery of One’s moderate priced horseless carriage, to revolve the electric fan, run the sewing and washing machine, and possibly rock the baby, and in fact ways of iiving. “Nothing is too novel to be expected or at least be possible, and that which to-day provokes our laughter, a decade from now may be part of our everyday life. As I have often said, it is one of my chief regrets that I could hot have-come on earth one generation later.”