Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-09

oot nhhS w JULIE tuuV tu0y KNOW
all that could be leaned about cleo
tricity, and that further Improvement
must be in the line of moro perfect
mechanical application, Mr.. Tesla
shows us the electric fluid under
conditions in which it differs from
ordinary electricity as much rs light
differs from heat. A current of 1900
volts will kill man in the twinkling
of IN eye, but the modern wizard lets
currents pour through his hands
with potential of 100000 volts,
vibrating million times second
and showering from in dazzling
streams of light. For some time af
ter the experiment ceases his body
and clothing emit streams and halos
of splintered light.
The widest dream Of tie inventor
could not have foreseen that while
currents Of low frequency nre deadly,
these are harmless. MIR. Tesla snys
That he will soon be ablo to wrap
himself in II complete sheet of cleo
trio fire that will keep man warm
at the North Pole without harming
him. Neither Merlin nor Michael
Scott nor any of the wizards of old
ever wrought more potent miracle,
even in fancy. The meaning of this
is too far beyond us to be realized at
present. We can no more grasp it's
Significance than Franklin could dis,
Germ tue electric motor in his cap.
tured thunderbolt Equally astound
ing, but with more visible usefulness,
10 MIR. Tesla's discovery that currents
of such enormous potential and fire.
queDcy Gun be transmitted without
the use of wires. A room can I've ill
ed with electricity from copper plates
in ceiling aud floor. so that electric
lamps will burn without any connect
ing wires as soon as they nre brought
in. In the same why Intelligence
and power may be transmitted with
out a circuit, doing away with the
necessity for trolleys, storage batter
les and subways When it is con-
sideled that such startling changes
MS this are already theoretically pos.
sible, it will be seen that in the in
ventions upon which we so compla.
Gently congratulate ourselves we have
only ti'nidly padded along the shore
of the great sen yet to be explored.
This sudden enlargement of the
ideas of scientific men in regard to
the nature and possibilities of cleo
tricity has led the New York Mail
and Express to bring together in a
Symposium the opinions of we'll
known electricians as 10 the future
developments of electrical science.
Mr. Edison thinks we shall vet be
able to get electricity direct from
coal-a discovery compared with
Mhich the philosophers stone is
baubio
Then our steamships will need only
"a snug little bin for $50 tons of coal
instead of one for 2.SA0 tons" Sue.
cesssful aerial flight, lectlic cookery,
transatlantic telephone, real tele |
scope with which one can see around
the word by the medium of a wire, !
the formation of wholesome food
products under the potency of cleo !
trical affinities-these are some of |
the things which imaginative invent.
ors foresee. Most startling of all,
thought it was suggested nearly ten
years ago by an undergraduate in
Western college, is Mr.. Edison's idea
tant unspokeu thoughts may DO re-
corded by electrical apparatus NJ
pied tn tho Uranium, and either re.
produced at pleasure or transmitted
70 another person.-Spriua field Re.
publican.