Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-08-11
INVENTIONS OLD ASD NEW.

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The remark that nothing is now un.
dor tho ruu rue O. au ox'cnt impss-
r.ulc Go rerIiza, until the dim pos, shan
become revealed In greater detail than
llia OF ufostnt. But 81 becomes more
and moro evident that many inven.
r01r OF ihls rye are new only In the
sense That they we're lost and again
found.
/. b. known that tho ancionis were
hmiIiar with The principles on which
lightning rods are constfuctod. Celtic
soldier, when out In thunuor storms
used 20 lie down on the
ground and plant their swords In
the soil. The electric hiid fre.
queuuy struck tho swords and the
warriors were unframed. Ancient
q maus plncsd iron rods on their
highest towers. a soldier was placed
on guarI aud his duty wa, when the
shy was threatening, 10 place bic lance
iu contact with the rod, As sosu a. a
spark developed Is was kuown that an
electric s'ofm was coming, anu boll
was ruug 30 alive the people warning Of
iis approach.
The Romans bored artehian wells IN
the gToNt African desert The lower
plains Of Lebanon were itrlgrttt, there
still being found traces Of the an-
Client canals. Massage was known
IN tho earliest times ~ a
remedy against certain ailments, snd
Paracolsus, IN the fifteenth century,
generally considered great quaok,
seems to have been homoopath. He
declares that sloknoss must be- removed,
not by anlldolcs but by something that
"a lie Effects l. similar TO the disease.
But long before paracolsus, Polybiup,
200 years before cur era, mentions the
homeopathic cure, ne does an Arabian
physician Ia the eleventh century.
In China hAsohisoh was given ~
an am ,thoiic centuries before our eta,
aud tho ttmains Of medical insiru-
menta have been found In tho ruins Of
PJmToii. The Greeks used a "bullel.
proof" coat, which arrows anu lancos
could penetrate with the utmost AIM.
Guilty.
There d one characteristic, however,
% modern inventions which places
them In n class Il ilstsnt from ancient
ouos, a. far as known. They AFRO not
the result o. lucky accidents OF chance
but the direct uu,C1me'of u more IN.
Innate and o5freo! knowledge Of tho
laws Of nature. For this reason they
follow one another with greater
rapidity, and one loads logically 10
another, until the whole complexion Of
eociOty becomes changed In brie
period OF time. Ancient advancement
was necessarily slow whom man had "a
feel his way In the dark; modern
progress has wings and scars swiftly
away In the light Of greater knowledge.
The question has already bseu
raised, whether II Ia not In the DO,
main Of science 20 regulate the tenn.
poratuTe on the earth. In some re-,
gious people are dying Of heal
while In others there Ia enough Of ic,
and snow TO cool a whole continent
Nature herself IL striving to equaliz,
tho temperature by sending the warm
currents OF the equator 10 the frozen
regions. Can man not assist nature NJ
this regard2 10 Is supposed that whom
II shall become practicable to send
large currents Of electricity from one
region TO another without n,
aid OF wire, that great problem viii
10 near 10 solution, IL li
supposed to be practicable then to con,
slruct motors whereby the heat Of the
equatorial regions can DO changed into
electricity and sout through tho earth
TO b3 diiiused again o. heat wherever
needed. In this way tho temperature
would be ,quallzei. Heat aud cold
might BIO supplied 10 order
This may only be a vision at pre1ent,
SIN II would not be safe to prououuc,
Ito naturalization impoiaible. Man
lrOr4 the beginning was given the
charge to "subdut" the earth, and II /.
In accordance with this that he is on
abled to enlist In his 0efvioe the mighty
natural forces, as ho learns to under