Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1906 — Edition's Future City. [ARTICLE]

Edition's Future City.

Considerable discussion has been aroused by a signed prophecy of Thomas A. Edison, detailing what our large cities will be like 100 years hence. He says they will be free from smoke and steam, and that the chimney will be a thing of the past, while the waste of coal and other fuel will be stopped through the use of electricity, generated direct from the fuel without the aid of engine, boiler or dynamo. In factories each machine will have its individual motor. Houses will be heated electrically, and most of the cities’ noises will cease. Skyscrapers will be universal in the business section, and the streets will be bridged oter at different heights to facilitate transit from one side to the other. He estimates that buildings will then average thirty stories in height, aud the greater number will be constructed of concrete and steel. Such buildings, he says, will stand a thousand years or longer. His new battery will make electricity portable for street vehicles or airships.