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

Prof. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen.
ors to find some method of navigating
the air as easily as we now navigate
the sea. The foremost of them all,
Professor Lilienthal, OF Germany,
yielded up his life for the cause, and
after his fatal fall, like the hero he
was, he only lamented that he had not
other lives to give to science. The 9TH
er two best-known eXperimenters are
Maxim, the American-born English
man, with his motor airship, and Pro-
fessor Langley, of Washington. with
his aerodrome, the secret of which he
carefully guards. Besides these three
there are imitators of less note, such as
Chanute and Paul, who made unsuc-
cessful trials of q winged boat near
Chicago; Cowden, of Virginia, with a
paddle-wheel machine, modelled after a
salmon; DR.. Wolfert, of Berlin, and Mr..
Bastard, of England. with cone shaped
balloons.
Discoveries In photography during
1896 have been sufficient to stagger one
who has not thought of the collective
result. The Roentgen discovery may
be considered under this head. Profess
sor Gates has photographed in dark
room with invisible rays Of light. The
photochronograph made during the
year for the use of the army, pictures
the flight of projectiles. Photos in bas
relief, like canoes, have been taken.
Further advances in color photography
have been made, though the difficulty
In printing off the colors from the neg
ative has not been removed. DR.. Pac-
ker, of England, has caught the coXona
of the sun through metal film. The
human voice has been photographed in
Columbia College. M. .Radel, of France
claims to have taken impressions of
dreams. each vision of the sleeper max
ing q different shadow on the sensitive
plate, and even figures of persons ap-
pear, which the dreamer, when awake,
recognizes as the individuals he saw
in his sleep Equally startling Is the
assertion of NJ. Narkierrico-Jodko, of
Russia, that he has photographed true
love, or rather that he has caught the
electric discharges exchanged when the
lovers clasp hands, which discharges
are not found In the handclasp of mere
friends.
OF more practical benefit to mankind
will be the invention of new motors to
take the place of steam. One substan-
tial advance has been the harnessing
of Niagara Falls, after years of toll on
tunnels and masonry. This power is
now turning the wheels of factories of
Buffalo.
Two newly invented motors have
been In operation on the street car
systems of New York this year-com-
pressed air and combination of stor-
age and third-rail systems.
A new style of electric locomotive
has been produced ..nintly by the Bald
win Locomotive Works, of Philadel-
phia. and the Westinghouse Electrical
Works, of Pittsburg.
DIR. jacques, of Boston. has discover
ed a method of extracting electrical en-
ergy direct from coal without the aid
or a steam engine Petroleum motors
for bicycles and horseless mail wagons
have been products OF the year. An
ticipating the time when fuel will be
scarce and expensive, Earnest Gerlach
has been at work on wave motor on
the coast of California to utilize the
vast power of the tides.
Nowadays nearly all professional In
vestors are electricians, for the possi'
bilities OF the mysterious force seems
to be greater than ever yet dreamed OF
by science. Edison has produced a new
electric light, which he calls fuores-
cent lamp, that gives an intense white
light. The most startling Innovation In
this line, though. n that of ID. McFar-