The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-28

( thought Of the possibility Of drawing a
I new food from the earth by electricity.
He said he saw no reason why 1t should
not be done.
/ only q few reactions are necessary"
I he replied. II think that inorganic ele
ments may be made to furnish susten-
I ance. The carbohydrates such as sugar
I aad starch would probably be the cheap
/ err" Mr. Edison did not say, however,
I how it could be done. Perhaps he contem-
plates trying it, And when Mr.. Edisen
/ contemplates doing anything he sener-
l ally waits until he does 1t before he says
/ anything about II.
/ He is not a believer in the lately her
| aided method Of using high tension cur
/ rents for producing light. This is the
1 current Of which Nikola Tesla is the
strongest advocate. We must expect, so
/ they say, a wonderful revolution in the
lighting OF our houses during the next
decade. 1t will come from invisible
sources and the rooms will be in a glow
Of light-an essentially modern condition.
Mr.. Edison does not think it practical,
from the fact that he does not believe peo-
pie would use it.
Il do not think people would use it," he
says, because il does away with some
very good qualities which e good light
should possess. The human eye is adapted
by nature TO encounter red and yellow
rays in the light with which il comes in
contact. We have it in the sun, in gas,
IN the incandescent light, in the candle
and so forth. When We reduce the amount
Of energy per Candle power, We lose these
red and ultra yellow rays and we grad
ually ascend the scale. We might start
with gas and go on through the various
degrees till VIC got to the arc light, and go
still further till at last we reach the light
of the common glow worm. The glow
worm produces a light, but without any
OF these red and yellow rays to which
we are accustomed. The energy is very
small. It is the same with these high
tension currents. Now no one would want
a sepulchral light-the light we are ac-
customed to connect with graves and
vaults You have seen a room lit up with
phosphorescent paint. You may read by
it, but you would not care for it always
No The eyes are built for very ultra
violet or reddish rays; for a compound
ray light, not one ray light. Nature is
against it."
Mr.. Edison ranged from one depart
ment to another, as he talked Of the sci
ence which he has so much helped to
| bring under the control of mankind. He
talked of his own inventions and Their
those of others. Then he spoke of the cleo
trical topics of the day. The kinetograph
was an invention he was asked about.
and here the public may learn that the
! kaleidoscope or graph" as they know IT
now, Is only trial, a mere experiment,
which is to be developed until we possess
the most wonderful invention of the age
! Pictures are to be reproduced life size
| and instead of gazing through a small
hole at reduced fac-simile of pair of
| prize fighters as we do now, we shall be
able, so Mr.. Edison declares, to witness a
| whole opera performance exactly as 1t
was given weeks, months, perhaps years
before-to hear the singers voices from
| the photographic see them move, act
make gestures, to note the very applause
of their audience-through the kineto-
scope. What a pity the photograph did
not flourish when Mario, Grisi, Parepa,
Rosa, Brignol or any other Of the grand
line of singers who have come and gone
was delighting the music lovers of both
continents. OF course a regular theater
would be needed, but art, which is long,
would become longer, and life, which is
! fieeting, might have a different connection
than what the poet gave it. The scenes in
such a theater would be colored, of course,
but after the fact, for the inventor has
not yet experimental on colored photo
graphs and has no intention, so far, of
doing 50. Can such and such a thing
be done, Mr., Edison" you may ask him
Il never say that anything cannot be
DONE" he will reply, when a man says
that he simply means that he cannot do
it, We are not infallible'
He is unaffected by the theories which
| have come from France regarding New
| York states system of "electrocutlon."
! D ARSENAL, the French scientist, thinks
or intimates, that men are not killed by
high currents such as are used at Sing
Sing Edison, the American scientist
thinks they are killed. DArsenval speaks
of men who have been resuscitated after
being heavily shocked by the current
Edison points to the list of men who have
been killed by it through accident The
list is long now, and the precedent estab-
lished is strong. However, he says that
| the way for the Frenchmen to prove
| their theories IS for them to take a man
! who is first shocked to a hospital and
make a test of reviving him. If he recov-
ers they will prove their point As to
the statement that the "electrocuted"
| men may really have been killed by the
| post norton knife and net by the current.
| he thinks 1t absurd. This ought to com
! fors those physicians who have performed
autopsies on the electrocutsd men.
There are enough young doctors hang
ing around the hospitals to make a thor
| ough test of it, said he. Nearly all the
men who have been killed by electricity
! have received the current through their
| hands All the marks on them after the
| current has passed through, have been =
! little white spot on each hand. When
the first men were electrocuted I advised
/ them to put electrodes on the hands and
feet. They had all the experience they
needed from the accidents that had oc-
CURED. But no, they must put them on
! the back Of the neck because a cluster of
nerves conferred in that region. They burnt
the men and now 1 see they have come
down TO adopting the suggestion I made.
Practical experience Is better than theory
every time.
MY first invention" he replied. when
asked about 1t, was vote recorder I
had witnessed the frauds that went on at
| political meetings and thought if 1 could
| do away with some of il would be doing
mankind favor went to work and in
vented a system by means Of which each
member of legislative body could, by
moving a switch on his desk to right or
/ left, register his name on a sheet of pa
per under the yeas or nays The Da-
/ per in the machine would, Of course. he
/ out Of reach, but in fun view OF the audi
ence. took it to a convention and to some
/ politicians. Well they would not even
look at It, and far from considering II
benefit to the country, they said II would
become a curse; for it would take away
the only power the minority party would
have in a meeting. The majority would
/ always rule; that settled IL. made up NV
mind never to invent anything the public