St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-22

Have you formed all opinion as to
how such a result is to be attained?"
Il have theory. Funnel-shaped re-
ceivers will be inserted behind the
stages of all the principal theaters. The
company securing the right will own its
own wires. There is no difficulty eX-
listing even now as to the transmission
of an opera to any desired dis
lance. The difficulty lies in the
inability to at the present time
distribute the sound waves after they
reach the diaphragm at the terminal of
the line. expect to see the diaphragm
constructed OF metal many times more
sensitive than the tin plate in use at
present. 1t will not be placed at the
side of the ball, for sound rises, and
even distribution could not be at
tanned by such means. 1t will be
In the floor. hidden perhaps by the
fountain spoke of just now. My i'm
preston is that the forcing upward
from it of steady current of air will,
in connection with other things, prove
solution of existing difficulties. This
problem once solved-and it is one In
tinitely easier of solution than many
of those made light of by Edison
i'll the past ten yearS-there
could be established in every town
"
penSe, concert hall where the greatest
singers. musicians and lecturers of the
world could be heard and admired.
Connected by private subscription with
individual houses, the householder could
lie In bed on Sunday morning and listen
TO Talmage'S thunderingS in the Brook
Ign Tabernacle"
The lightning manipulation paused
for breath and then went on.
Il expect to see the streets of St.
Paul as light by artificial means as
cheap electricity can make them. You
have seen Third street during the car
nival. Well, there is no reason why a
city possessing its own plant, and
with Improved means for the
prevention of induction, should
not have all its streets lighted
just as brilliantly as Third street has
been on-a few occasions. Thousands of
vari-colored lamps would burn where
now there are only few pioneer cleo
trlc lights. If the Chicago Aerial Navi-
CATION company makes a success of its
coming trial, Imagine yourself twenty
i've years from now calling up Chicago
on Saturday night and talking to one
of the Herald staff like this:
Halo, Tom. Who is that? Tom
Brown? Oh. say, Tom, are you off duty
tomorrow? Well, say old man, why
can't you run down on the air line and
take dinner with me tomorrow? All
right, l shall look for you. Anything
new over there to-day? Same here. So
long. old chap
Mr.. Brown drops down on you from
chicago before you are up next morn
ing. stays for dinner, takes in the thea
ter, and goes back on the last air line
ship. How's that?'' -
''Out of sight," replied the listener.
We'll" continued the electrician, 81
don't know but you are right as far as
the air ship business Is concerned.
am little skeptical about it myself,
but when it comes to long distance tele-
phoning am the most sanguine of indi-
viduals. Most people don't realize that
that there are thousands of inventive
young Americans engaged in the study
of electricity, each of whom is would-be
inventor. Now, from this army new
men spring every year with practically
valuable inventions. Since Bells dis
c0very OF the most successful method
for the electrical reproduction OF
speech, there have been all enormous
number of patents granted to young
inventors. The telephone has been ap-
piled to many purposes. Though main
ly III use for the transmission of speech,
over long distances, it is soon to come
into general use between different
rooms of house as a speaking tube.
Placed at the end of burglar alarm
line, protecting bank or store, the
Blake tiansmitter furnishes correct
knowledge of the movements of the
thief. As current meaSurer or de-
tector, the telephone is unequaled
by the best galvanometer on the mar
ket, making evident the faintest cur
rent or the slightest change in a cur
rent. Yet, as | have said, telephony.is
i'll its infancy. and the possibilities
ahead OF it in the neXttwenty-five years
are illimitable. The same may he said
of all forms of electrical appliance.
Railroads will be Independent of steam
power, and the people on Arlington
Hills who object to the smoke nuisance
wilt have to ind a new grievance. They
will probably kick about the noise OF
the generators. Photographs will be
reproduced in outline by telegraphy
in even less than the time
of which we have spoken, If
the present researches in that
direction meet with anything like the
success that is expected of them. The
correspondent of the GLOBE will wit.
ness the Kentucky Derby and send an
instantaneous photograph of the finish
to his paper for st. Paul people to look
at the next morning. Transatlantic
cables will be multiplied, and eommu-
nicati0n with acquaintance and friends
in foreign lands will be but matter
of Few cents and few minutes. La
fact, it is easy enough, as | said at first
to draw picture of the future Of the
electricity, but to draw correct one is
a task beyond me or my peers in the
profession. However, l think that il
you live 10 see st. Paul twenty-five
years from to-day, you will note a con
dition of electrical development even
more remarkable than is suggested by
anything L have said regarding the
future"
What may not be accomplished in
twenty-five year; by people so prone
to the adoption of new ideas as Ameri
cans? VIII not cooking be done by
electricity, as science has alread,
proved it can be done? Will not every
house be furnished with telephones il
the same sense that it is now fitted with
| door bells, and the doors with phono
| graphs that will deliver the message Of
the caller who finds the family not al
! home. The answer to these questions
will come in the affirmative, long before
| the time limit referred to in this article
has expired. Electricity is at presen
but a sprawling infant. Its power is a:
yet unrecognized in many of the ave
EueS which in the future it will traverse
| Locally, the fullest advantage possible
| has been taken of existing knOwle ledge
of the science, and it may safely he pre-
| sumed that st. Paul il, the future. as il
| the past, will be found in the lead O
| those cities which take the best tina
| electricity can offer them. Peg.
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