The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-28


soft. phosphorescent glow the best
counterfeit of daylight yet devised.
Even now electricity for domestic use
Is peddled from house to house in New
York city, like milk in cans. Edison
has improved the telautograph, invent
| ed the previous year, in still better
devise for transmitting pictures by
wire, calling his invention the auto
| graphic telegraph. Professor Rowland,
of Johns Hopkins University, has de
vised the multiplix printing telegraph
capable of sending ten separate mes
sages at once over single wire. M.
Kildlschewsky has been experimenting
with long distance telephoning under |
water. He has already talked through |
several hundred miles Of wire under |
the Don river, and now aspires to make |
his voice heard by cable across the At- |
lantic. Alexander Graham Bell has in |
vented radiophone, by which he
transmits a sunbeam over the tele-
phone for long distances.
Among other 1896 inventions made
possible by electricity are the eaphone,
for directing the exact direction OF
sounds at sea during q fog; Edisous
vitascope, for reproducing play; Lum
iere's cinematographe, which like the
, kinetoscope, already out of date, pro-
: duces figures In action, but in addition
projects them in magnified form so
that whole audiences may see them
: DR.. Frank Closes telestroscope, which
telephones sight as well as sound, en-
abling takers to see each other face
, to face, though separated hundreds OF
miles; and the phenendoscope, to de-
: tect the presence of disease by sound.
This last is of such exceeding delicacy
= that 1t makes wink as audible as a
cannon shot.
I These piping times of peace are pro-
: life in inventions for wholesale slaugh-
' ter in time OF war. During the year
Y in the struggle for supremacy between
a big guns and armor plate the tide Of
Q victory has once more turned toward
|, the guns, through increased power ana
o improved projectiles. Moreover, two
: types of submarine torpedo boats,
: which are now being perfected, the
Gathmann and the Holland, threaten
: to make the most powerful battleship
6 as defenseless as tub.
Z, 1t would lengthen this article too
s much to even mention all the inven-
= tions of the year, but 1t would not do
s. to slight few of the most important,
l. such as the Hawkins method Of max
s ing steel, a substitute for the Bessemer
d process, the invention of a saw manu-
k facturer of Saginaw, Mich.
The progress of the healing art has
: kept pace with the march of invention
The biggest stride in advance, IL II
succeeds, is the supposed discovery oI
Dr. Edson of New York, who thinks
he has found method of killing in the
blood all disease germs. This he seeks
to accomplish by hypodermic injections
of asepsin, relieving the stomach o
the task of assimilating drugs.
During the year the principle of in
oculation, which had already proves
effective against smallpox, hydropho
bia and diphtheria, has been extended
to the cure of lockjaw, snakebite ant
insanity. Pneumonia is treated by DI
Moran, of Elyrla, Ohio, who draws o'
. the poisonous matter by producing ar
tificial assesses where they can easil
be removed by the knife.
The first epileptic sanitarium In tn
world has been established at Noun
Morris, New York. under the name G
the Craig Epileptic Colony"
The sphygmograph, an instrument t
measure heart beats, Is an 1896 inyer
tion. Massage by water power, whic
has been introduced into the New Yor
Orthopedic Hospital. is also an achieve
ng ment Of the year. Attempts have bee
tie made during the year to explain tn
Ill, shadowy borderland which lies betwee
ly the body and the spirit. The unhear
nd of things which photography has es
he sayed in this line l have already men
lot toned; but there are two mechanicj
h inventions which touch closely upo
ire psychology. The pendulent chrome
ih- scope now in use in the University
ro- New York .s designed to measure I'll
lth brain of living man, to determine Ia
he mental capacity. julius Emmor NJ
rec inventor of the long distance teleph IN
as has contrived what he calls "thougt
lc- machine" You can think in the pres
Ear ence of delicately constructed cyliI
a der and the apparatus, by means I
+ a chemical and electrical forces, will bo
Mr.. tie your ideas. as 1t were, just as ed
)ed sons phonograph stores away one
voice and words.
ng In the city of Washington there al
me two laboratories where scientists al
i've devoting their lives to eXperimentir
lay upon the shadowland | have mention
es- ed. Professor Elmer Gates Is the Leaf
lrk ing spirit of one. lie Is studying Il
he physical side of mental action, and h
the aim is to build up the brain, just
res Dy careIul uleLlnS lne DOuy OF an ii
oas valid may be built up. One fruit
en-. his researches is the electrostat, whlC
'hy by directing a stream of electricity u
lty on the brain, will enable the owner
eg- the organ TO concentrate his ment
ac- powers upon problem as he could n
ma do without artificial aid. BY using Il
he electrostat the stupidist Ounce may b
in come quick -witted-so claims Profess,
nee Gates.
of The other institution Is part of Vi
ak Gle Sans own Bureau Of Education al
i've has founded the new science of "ps
ap- cho-neurology" DR.. Mcdonald, /
Ike, chief, is making stndy of the physlc
aw effects of the emotions-how love al
the hate, for instance, affect the bloc
of brain and nerve. His apparatus
rue said 10 tost the power of the will al
the measure the quickness and quality
the an idea Philadelphia Times.
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