Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-02


! yised the muitlplex printing telegraph capa-
/ bic OF sending ten separate messages an
/ ounce over single wire. NJ. Kildischowsky
/ hss been experimenting with lorg-distance
! toiophonIng under water. He has already
/ talked through several hundred miles Of
! wire under the Don river, and now aspire5
| 10 make his voice heard by cable across the
! Atlantic Alexander Graham Bell has in
! vented radlophone, by which he trans
mits sunbeam over the telephone for long
| distances.
! ELECTRIC LINOTYPE.
James +. Pcmberton. Tenncsseean, has
! the most wonderful project OF all for using
I machines from central news agencies like
! the Associated press, putting the dis
! patches directly into type, wires being at
| tachcd to the keys OF machines all over the
country and worked from the central
/ agency by a single operator.
Among other 1896 inventions made pos
! siblo by electricity are the eophOno for de-
] tcciing the exact direction Of sounds at sea
| during fog; Edison's vtascope. for repro
! ducing play; Lumero's cinematopraphe,
| which, like the kinctoscope. already out OF
| date, produces figures in action, but in ad-
/ dition projects them in magnihed form so
| that whole audiences may see them. DR..
! Frank Closes tclcctroscOpe, which tele-
phones sight as we'll as sound, enabling talk
| ers to see each other face 10 face, although
separated by hundreds Of miles, and the
phoncndoscope to detect the presence Of
! disease by sound This last is OF such eN-
ceeding delicacy that 1t makes a wink as
audible rs a cat non shot.
/ These piping times OF peace are prolific
in inventions FOR wholesale slaughter in
| time of war. During the year, in the
struggle for supremacy between big guns
and armor plate, the tide OF victory has
once more turned toward the guns through
increased power and improved projectiles.
Moreover, two types Of submarine tor
pcdo boats which are now being perfected,
| the Gathmann and the Holland threaten
to make the most powerful battleship as de-
fenseless as a tub
II would lengthen this article too much
to even mention all Of the inventions of the
year. but II wouldn't do to ellght few of
the most important, such as the Hawkins
method Of making steel, a substitute for the
BeSsemer process, the invention Of a saw
manufacturer OF Saginaw, Mich. bicycle
passenger car, which may be propelled by
its own occupants, or else attached TO a
train, and submarine bicycle for the Use Of
deep sea divers, are new variations for the
benefit of wheelmen. Then there is the at
tempt of Mr. Emmens of Emmensite explo-
slve fame, to revive alchemy. claiming his
ability to transmute silver into gold.
DEEDS OF THE DOCTORS.
The progress Of the healing art has kept
pace with the march of invention The big
gest stride in advance, If 1t succeeds. is The
York, who thinks he has found method Of
killing in the blood all disease germs. This
he seeks to accomplish by hypodermic in
lection of asepsn, relieving the stomach OF
the task of assimilatlng drugs. The i'm
mensity of such an Innovation will be real
lied If 1t can be proved that. excluding vio-
lence and accident from the calculation, the
new remedy would ward off any but a purely
natural death at the end of mans allotted
time on earth. That is, no intrusive dis
eases like pneumonia or fever which cut
off its victim in the prime of life, could with
stand the attack of the germ killer.
During the year the principle of inOcula-
tion, which had already proved effective
against smallpox, hydrophobia and diphthe
ria, has been extended to the cure of lock-
jaw snakebte and insanity. Pneumonia Is
treated by Dr. Moran OF Elyria, o., who
draws OFF the poisonous matter By producing
artificial abscesses where they can easily
be removed by the knife.
The first epieptic sanitarum in the world
has been established at Mount Morris n. Y,
under the name of the Craig Epileptlc
Colony"
The sphygmograph, an instrument to
measure heart beats, is an 1896 invention.
Massage by water power, which has been
introduced into the New York Orthopedic
hospital, Is also an achievement of the year.
Attempts have been made during the
year to explore the shadowy borderland
which lies between body and spirit. The
essayed in this line l have already men
toned; but there are two mechanical in
ventions which trench closely upon psy-
chology. The pendulent chronoscope now in
use in the University OF New York is de-
signed to measure the brain of living man
to determine his mental capacity. Julius
Emmer, inventor OF the long-distance tele-
phonc. has contrived what he calls L
thought machine" You can think in the
presence of delicately constructed cylini-
dor ard the apparatus by means of chem,-
cal and electrical forces. will bottle your
Ideas, as it were, just as Edsons phono-
graph stores away ones voices and words.
In the city of Washington there are two
laboratories where scientists are devoting
their lives 10 experimenting upon the shad-
owland / have mentioned. Prof. Elmer
Gates is the leading spirit of one He p
studying the physical side of mental action
and his aim is to build up the brain, Just
as by careful dieting the body of an invalid
may be built up. One fruit of his researches
Is the electrostat, which. by directing a
stream of electricity upon the brain will
enable the owner Of the organ to concen-
trate his mental powers upon a problem as
he could not do without artificial aid. BY
using the eleotrostat the stupidest Ounce
may become quiCh-wltted-so claims Prof.
Gates.
The other institution is a part of Uncle
Sans own Bureau of Education and has
founded the new science of "psycho-neur-
ology." DR. Macdonald It's chief, Is max
ing study OF the physical effects of the
emotions-how love and hate. for Instance
ahect the blood, brain and nerves. His ap-
paratus Is said to test the power of the will
and measure the quiclkness and quality of
an idea.