Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-12-11
TEsrA's GRAND VISION.
Electricity Now ut wor,, TransferrnIns
the Worlds Affairs.

Electricity Now ut Work TransforrnInS
the WORLDS Affairs.
A sketch OF the famous electrical =,
Nikola TcSln. concludes with the state
newt of his belief that the developmeut
of applied electricity will be the eman-
cipation of mankind; that the labor
saving devices which may I've operated
by the mysterious energy will reduce
the necessary hours of labor and level
the difference between the rich and the
poor To that end he is bcndiug his
energies aud using his wonderful tai
enis for invention and Investigation.
His purpose is great aud noble one
his belief is neutrality-suspicious. some will
say ii is impraAc@ble aud foolish.
IL is i fact. however. tl,at the achieve
mcnis of the era thl: began with Amer
lean independence and the untraui-
meied opportunity Of man have made
1t possible Tor twice MS uuuy people 10
! live comfortably within given area
us before that time. The capacity for
production has been so enlarged and the
processes 81 cheapencd that the fear
of overpopulating the earth has been
forgotten. and that. too, in the face G.
wv "So' hbIiiN HINttSSt lrpDulHIlOr
within historic times.
We are all accustomed TO note the
tremendous increase in population in
this country. large portion of which ia
i due 10 Immigration, hat Il is not So COM
mon to recognize the fact that the pc.:,-
uIations of the lands from which our
immigrants are drawn are increasing
more rapidly than they were century
or hnlf century ago. Yet such is really
the fact. Great Britain, Germany,
France. Italy, Austria, Belgium and
Holland, which were considered crowd
ed and in need of new lands to which
the surplus population might cmigratc
ccntury ago, now contain double the
population Of that time and are not
ovewrowdcd avs they then seemed TO be.
This wonderful change has been
wrought by the invention Of labor
saving machinery. by the Development
OF applied steam power. The contrast
OF wealth and poverty has rot been
abolished by any means, but the poor
have been made TO enjoy some of the
comforts that could only be afforded
by tho very wealthy century ego. The
discovery Of new applications for cleo
'rical energy has already added ma
terililr to the worlds resources. and il
IL MS certain us anything human can be
that this power will develop i'm many
morr useful directions in the future.
u is probable that it may do vastly.morr
THAN has been done by steam TO suppor.
added population, il not to wipe out The
differences Of wealth.
Robert Fulton's invention for the an
plication of steam power for useful pur-
p;rr'' has not only made it possible 10
produce from II given area the nccessi-
ties and comforts for doubIy dense
population, but it has made accessible
vast regions that werc formerly mae.
ceSsiblc 1t has made ii possible for all
the people of the earth to exchange
commodities; it has opened the interior
o! lie American continents 10 the world.
ana Is rapidly opening the almost un-
known regions of Africa and Asia TO
production and commerce. The ST.
hcrinn railroad nlone-made possible by
this American invcntion-has opened ia
settlement region capable. with pres
cnt devices, OF supporting popula-
ton twice as great as that the Russian
empire contains ut present.
But all that steam has done to nd.
vance civilization and con tribute to the
wants OF mankind may be eclipscd by
the young giant, applied electricity. 1t
Is possible that discovery of processes
FOR generating the current direct from
coal and means OF conserving the gen.
GRATED energy may so cheaper light,
neat and power that al mankind may
be supplied with the necessities and
comforts of life almost without labor.
That is Mr. Tesla's thought. 70 the
man unfamiliar with what has been
accomplished in the field of applied cleo.
tricity ii may seem like hazy dream
OF the unattainable. But 10 Mr.. Tesla,
deep in the mysteries of wonderful
energy that seems TO pervade the whole
universe, it is the distinct perception o.
that from which he is divided by only n
thin veil, and which lie might view face
to fncc if he could but find the means 10
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