Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-04-16
THE DOMAIN OF DISCOVERY.
POSSIBLE INVENTIONS THAT WILL
VASTLY BENEFIT MANKIND.

Utilizing the Waves Of Ocean Waters---
"A Storage Battery will Solve the Fly
Ing Machine ProbIsm--.PortabIs Re-
frigeratIon Wanted.
The new and wonderful photography
which depicts the interior of solid OBJ
jccts and the discovery Of argon, a
hitherto unsupported quality Of the
atmosphere, show that progress nova
days is steady and rapid in the physical
sciences. There are several important
discoveries now receiving the attention
OF scientists and experimenters, who,
almost any day, may stumble upon the
right solution of problems which will
yield untold wealth to the dlscovcrer
and confer lasting benefits on man.
kind.
There is In the first place he vast
problem Of utilizing the force and
power of the sea. The waves that
break upon our Atlantic seaboard ex-
ert in a single day greater force than
all the steam engines Of the United
States combined.
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the largest steamship as toy, upbuiads
vast territories of sand only to destroy
them again and thunders on lee shore
with all the violence Of the heavens
artillery, 10 pitiable spectacle OF vast
ed energy. The mighty strength Of
Niagara is hardly as great as that OF
the waves OH a hundred miles Of sea-
shore.
j'he problem involved is merely n me
cEanical one. You must find Il machine
which will rise and fall with the tide,
and which will be so strong as TO with
stand the greatest force Of the incom-
ing breakers.
The swells of ocean which no " VOL
in upon thousand miles of shore must
be stopped and made to give UP their
force. The machine which will extract
this force from the waves must meet
them, and take it up by preventing
them from wasting their strength In
simple breakers. A great wheel pro-
perly supported and balanced, /. would
seem, could be turned by these waves,
and each revolution might represent
thousands of tons of energy.
A somewhat similar problem is how
to utilize the mighty force Of the tides.
which come and go daily with resist
less flow. Look in the water q. high
tide, and its mere weight in a large en-
closure represents thousands OF horse
power, which could be utilized as the
water is released This force has been
used in many seaboard countries in n
crude and trifling manner, but upon 4
large and comprehensive scale the ex-
pertinent has never been tried.
The electrical storage battery is n
machine upon whose discovery many
other problems are waiting for Solu-
ton. The mechanism that would .;lkc
the power from the waves would be
uneven in it's work, according as the
sea was high or low, but with II proper
storage battery the vast energy Of a
storm could be stored to max, up
for the inefficiences of the succeeding
calm.
When the ideal storage battc"y is
discovered, the flying machine problem
Will be nearly solved Men are pre-
vented now from flying because the
weight Of the propelling engine they
have to take along dminishes the lift
ing power and requires gas-bags, wings
or aeroplanes too big to be practicable.
If you could take along the power of
1000 horses stored in two-pound block
Of metal, releasing it as required, then
flying would be within the reach of
all. Practicable flying machines would
revolutioniZe warfare, making it pos
sible to drop dynamite on armies and
mep-of-war, so that forts would be use
less and submarine vessels only would
be safe. The latter also wait for the
storage battery to he discovered.
An intense heat is also wanted. BY
this means the sand of the seashore
could be melted into cheap and OK
ccllent building material, easily
handled before the melting and more
permanent than any brick.
\ way of making cold as easily and
cheaply as heat is now produced is also
wanted. BY this means houses could
be cooled in summer, just as they are
now heated in winter, and life in the
hottest parts of the tropics could be
robbed of many of it's terrors. Port
able refrigerators is another problem
connected with this question.
Malleable glass was used by the
Phoenicians, and the secret of how 1t
Was made has been lost. The rediscov.
cry of this lost art will revolutionize
building.
In medicine it is hoped that oacteri-
ology contains the germ Of a new sci
ehce which will entirely change prac-
tice. 1t is now believed that every dis
case has its microbe, although n few
Only have been identified.
With the identification Of each dis
case microbe the discovery of It's pro-
per antidote Is likely soon 10 follow.
Drugs would thus become obsolete, and
thu stomach would no longer be lie
stroyed by chemicals, an instantaneous
effect being secured through the infn-
sion Of the proper antidote in the blood.
Telegraphy without wires is prob
lem upon which Tesla is working. A
means to combat the army worm is al
so wanted, as well as thorough sys-
TEN for the disinfection of city sewers
and practicable method of household
garbage cremation. Photography in
the colors Of nature has long been the
dream Of scientists, but it yet remains
n mystery.
The new gas Is cheaper and more
powerful than the old, but can be