Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-02-26
WITH THE INVENTORS.
NUMBER OF CURIOUS AND IN
TERESTING DEVICES.
Does . Multiplicity OF Convenience
Make Men Laxys-Thermometers Bar
ometers, Manometers and Hydrometers
The Battles Of the Future.

from these mechanisms are so great as to far
overbalance what mischief may come from
their use Indeed it would not be difficult TO
show that the conduct of the business Office Of
to-day is quite as thorough and precise as Of
yore, while at the same time operations,
though far more extensive, are conducted
with greater expedition The modern Office
receives the market reports by electricity,
and Is connected by the same natural force
with thousands of other offices, any Of which.
no matter how far removed, may be COM
nunicated with at moments notice.
Lamps have given place TO gas and gas to the
electric light. The merchant was long since
relieved of the labor of writing scores of let
:ers day by the appearance Of the stenog
r.pher who took down his words as they fell
from his lips, and afterward transcribed
shem on letter paper for the mail
PHoyoGRAPH AND THE "oMETERs."
But this was not yet perfect enough In
ventiye genius brought forth the typewriter,
and the merchants letters went first into a
stenographic note book, and afterward into
print. The stenographer can only take down
words in language which he alone can in
aerpret, but the monograph can photograph
not only the words but the sounds of the
words, the voice and intonation and emphasis
Of the speaker, and all this in a language that
anybody can understand. Having improved
he phonograph TO such an extent as to make
( a practical continuance for the affairs of
every day life, Edison now proposes to make
it take the place of the stenographer in bust
hess offices.
Some other instruments 10 save time
and trouble and add TO the conveniences of
.ife are the telethermometer, telebarometer
1elemanometer and the telehydrobarometer.
All these are electrical and, as their names
would imply, are designed to indicate distant
conditions. The telethermometer furnishes
the brewer, malster, oil, sugar refiner, ware
houseman and so on with a constant check
upon the superintendent of their employees
The instrument, connected with the several
apartments or cellars by wire, is hung upon
the wall of his Office So are the other instru-
nents that have been named The telehydro-
barometer viii record in a single Office the
height of ponds, lakes and the various sections
Of rivers and canals The thermometers
automatically record the pressure in boilers,
that n manufacturer can always tell by
looking up at the wall of his Office whether or
not his engineers are obeying his orders re
sarding the amount of steam they are to keep
up. The telebarumeter records electrically
naroiietIlc prtSStlres and relative humidity.
MACHINERY FOR HAND LABOR.
The substitution of machinery labor for
hand labor has engrossed many ingenious
minds and some success has been scored i'm
making machines do the work of horses and
oxen in drawing loads. The steam carriage
now used on some of the level English post
roads and the ponderous iron roller for
smoothing roads and park walks are examples
of their handiwork The boldest however,
have not heretofore had the temerity to even
attempt to substitute machinery for the COW
in producing milk But If an artificial COW
is not an actually, it is certainly true that
science has found substitute for the milk
maid and the dairy maid, for recent patent
office reports show several inventions by the
Use Of which COWS can be automatically
MIXED, and there is now in Use an electrical
continuance by which the cream can be at
once separated from milk without adopting
the usual settling process, and this cream
turned into butter
OF all recent discoveries that regarding the
us. of the telephone on the ocean seems to be
by long odds the most important and if its
possibilities really as great as now they
seem, the deep sea telephone may yet come to
be regarded one of the greatest discoveries
of this century To Professor Trowbridge be
longs the honor of having worked out the
problem of telephoning between ships on the
nigh seas, though others have taken up the
,rincipe ard elaborated it,
THE WARS OF THE FUTURE
From present appearances the wars of the |
future will have to he conducted by scientists. |
The sub marine torpedo boat at present |
constructed, navigates the depths of ocean |
with the fishes IL will take its crew of men |
directly under the bottom of hostile ship, |
and is So arranged that they can affix death |
dealing torpedo 70 the same and then move |
away, and though it be bright daylight those
aboard the ship viii not know that an enemy |
has visited them. On land the machine gun |
recently invented 10y the American. Hiram |
Maxim, will stand and deliver its terrible |
hail of shot without the attendance or
even the presence of a single human being. |
This wonderful gun loads and fires Itself |
the power generated by the |
recoil of the gun having been utilized by |
Maxim 10 perform both operations Imagins |
a row of such guns placed before the ad
vancing lines of an enemy. Each can fire 60 |
rounds of heavy shot in a minute without III |
fear of overheated tubes, because the sam
power which loads the fires the gun keeps I
steady column of cool water flowing over tn /
barrels
To make the life of supposed enemy still |
more intolerable, Gen. Thayer, United States
army, has recently invented what he calls ii
dirigible balloon, which will not only rise
into the clouds, but will go whithersoever its
pilot chooses to direct il. This balloon is ex-
citing no little interest among military au
both here and abroad, the English
having sent over a special military agent to
report upon its value warlike apparatus
A picture of this balloon shows several score
Of soldiers with machine guns being hurried
to the front in country where there are no
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