Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-12-10
WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY
Wiznd Edison Will Soon Startle
the World tgain.
working ON a Machine tn Pump Flee
tricity Directly From the Atmos-
phero--It viii Drive steam
Out OF Use.

A writer In the New York Advertiser
says; There arc SO many new things
In the electrical line that / could not
begin 10 mention them. Electricity is
coming into everything-industrial,
domestic, mechanical. Tho most i'm
portant things in the electrical world
today are the development OF the stor.
nge battery motor for city railway
lines, the perfection of the high speed
locomotives for long distance railways
and a new and mysterious and won
derful thing promised by Thomas A.
Edison. Just what this Is | do not
know.
MIR. Edison Is q friendof mine and l
often meet him but the day has
passed In which outsiders can find out
all that Is 90 ng on at Menlo Park. A
few years ago Edison's latchstrlng was
always out. lie liked to have ~electrl-
clans and others visit his workshops.
lie took delight In showing them what
he had accomplished, what no was
trying to do. lie had few secrets.
Even :.;s things which he endeavored
to guard, In his careless. good-natured
way, visiting electricians were able ia
divine the nature OF. to smell OUT
their purpose, scope and general plan,
though the details were concealed
from their eyes. Many an electrician
has made q fortune out Of suggestions
gathered during a visit to Menlo Park.
Now oil this is changed. Edison Ia
In the hands OF shire wd business mon,
who guard him and ali his works as Il
he were the great Koh-i-noor diamond.
They are perfectly right In doing SO,
for Edison has little idea Of business;
small conception OF his own CONNER.
cial value. To him money is desirable
only because it is something That car
be spent in ~unraveling moro OF nature's
mysteries; in dcvising new blessing.
for mankind. The business men who
have surrounded Edison say he In,
done enough for the world and that II
is time no was doing something fol
Edison. They say, and truly, tina,
there docs not live upon the face o.
the globe today another man who hA.
done as much for his race as he.
Unless | am greatly mistaken, Edi
son - ~ engaged upon an ~inv-niioi
"hiNh u tO tip kACok
est OF all his works. | don't presum,
to know much about it, because, as
have said, the inventor Is now care
fully guarded and few hints Of hi
operations reach outside ears But
few facts have accidentally come {.
my knowledge which convince me tina
Edison is constructing-has. In fact
constructed, and Is nov perfecting-;
machine which will produce electrical
power sat onc-half or ~one-quarter IL
present cost.
Edison saws the universe Is full o
terrestrial and solar magnetism ant
that a dynamo is simply a machine
which pumps out this magnetism 81
that II run in n stream along n givel
line. just Al one may pump water ou
of the ocean and set a stream TO run
ming from it, have myself hear,
Edison soy this a number OF times il
response To the question SO often pu
ut him, Mr.. Edison, what Is cleo
tricity. anyway
In the opinion Of most electrical OK
perts the question OF economical trans
mission OF power is largely one OF
conductor heavy enough for the work
We believe the day Is coming whel
- ia.usS.s -
miles distant; when nil tho grea
waterfalls In the land will DO similari,
used. ! believe. moreover. that in
fcw years mining, farming an,
other operations in the far ives
will be carried on largely b,
means OF energy taken from
windmills and electrically stored, S,
that a farmer may plow or reap mile
from his homestead and his wind en-
CINE by the employment OF a wire I,
carry his power wherever he maj
chance to want It. Still further, / be
lieve sun engines-deriving thci
power from the fierce rays Of the SUI
will be used In oil hot, dry countrie,
to pump electricity out OF the earth
to be stored for use or immediately
distributed. In other words, we ar,
ut tho dawn OF an electrical age, anC
its wonders and glorios no man cur
foresee.