, 1886-09-16
MODERN SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY.
Application of Science to the Useful Art,
-what the Future Holds In Store

When Il new discovery is announced,
society sits and stares at the ~discoverer as
II to say, Well. what are you going to do
about it? Capitalists dodge him when he
calls. BY common consent he is voted a
bore. He is generally poor. A long
course of meditation on mathematical
problems has impaired a dazed air to his
physiognomy. His clothes are art to be
shabby. His eyes have a hungry look.
He is generally a one-idea man; on all
other subjects than the one he has in
hand he is apt to be dull and uniformed.
Men Of the world know that, as a rule,
snch men are either enthusiasts or i'm
posters. 1t is safe betting that nine out
of ten new discoveries or inventions
will turn out to be useless or frau Is.
The prudent capitalist never embarks
money in enterprises where the chances
are nine to one against success.
And yet there are great discoveries in
course of evolution which are destined
to revolutionize the world, and to pile up
fortunes for their patentees compared to
which the colossal wealth acquired by
the owners of the Bell telephone will
seem trifing. Take the one subject Of
aerial navigation. A hundred years have
elapsed since Montgolier demonstrated
the navigablility of the air. The missing
link with him was the power to direct
his balloon. Fifty years afterward John
Wise believed he had discovered the
secret ne declared that the air lay IN
strata IN some OF winch the wlnd was
hVariapie- Inc oeiect oil ms theory
was that his premises were false-there
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In n late numher of this journal wa
not;ced tho nrorrase that ia ha;no uada
in tbe use of ,.lectr;c;,v as n motor II
seems that a large nronortion of the hoots
and tho clothing that 10 modo /, San
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because fms far tho motors arc onIv nm
anxilinrv To the saving machines. the
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thougb tbeir la or ia raducaI Rnt il ia
ohv;eus thar the next sten in the course
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