The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-30
Science Mention
and Discovery,

"A man from the West brought back
the other day pencil sketch of Nikola
resias quarters at the foot of Pixies
eaA' COL 1t is long, wooden struc'
lure, With veranda extending its
Mnole length and surmounted by d
lower ON which experiments are con.
uucled. 1t has been the general be-
iieI that the inventor had been living
since last spring near the summit OF
{ me Peak, IL, 0O0 feet into the air, over
.oohing an area of $4,000 square miles
II truth, he is several miles from the
LOU OF the mountain
MT. Tesla has withdrawn Of late from
iiost OF his early associates and his
professional and social friends. He
has become more and more of a recluse,
ana as he makes few confidants his
exact whereabouts were unknown I'M
III the arrival of the man with the
pencil sketch. But he is always work
ing 1ndustriously wherever he may be
The latest experiment of the wizard
VI electricity is perhaps his most i'm
portant. 1t is to discover a means fol
the transmission of sound, and also
power, by electricity without the ust
OF wires. Tesla has believed for many
years that this remarkable achieve
ment can be carried on successfully,
and his present experiments We're
planned long ago.-Saturday Evening
Post, Philadelphia
1t is proposed to attach to the loud
speaking telephone invented by Nj
German a registering apparatus in
which a photograph is combined with
the receiver. By this means the mes
sage will be recorded in the absence
Of the person for whom it is intended
who will thus be able to hear it from
the monograph on his return. No de
tails, however, are given of the pro-
vision for the registration of a mum
Der OF messages from different callers
without which the appliance would be
OF little practical use. In regard to
the loud-speaking telephone itself. there
are as yet no authentic indications
that 1t will be as sery 'ceable as its
inventor claimed it would be- 1t was
said that singing and speaking could
be heard at a distance of 800 feet from
the receiver, and if a second receiver
were fixed against a garden wall il
enabled one to hear everything that
went on within the garden; it also made
ordinary conversation audible at a dis.
lance of fifty feet.
Until recently, as is generally
known" says electricity" 1.-The use
of electricity in any shape or form in
a.,
The final triumph over the prejudicei
of the Sultan, who has always mag.
ined that dynamo was a synonym fol
dynamite, is now said to have beer
due to Spaniard and the kinemato-
graph. This Spaniard, Don Ramirez
by name so the story runs, started g
circus in Constantinople, and in orde,
to be UP to date imported a kinemato-
graph. But the city authorities would
not allow him to set his new instru
ment in operation because it had to be
driven by the condemned electricity
In his difficulty he applied to his EN-
bassador, who promised to do his bes
for him. During the next audience
which he had with the Sultan the willy
diplomatist took occasion to enlarge OF
the wonders of the kinematograph, and
interested the Sultan so much that Dor
Ramirez was ordered to bring his in
strument to the palace. Moving scenes
from the leading capitals of Europe
were thrown on the screen for the
delectation of the Sultan, with the re-
suit that permission was finally grant.
ed the Spaniards to install in his cir
Gus the first electric light plant ovel
operated in Constantinople."
Commenting on the reported use o.
blasts of compressed air to blow awas
the dust from ornamental metal work
elevator cages, etc, in New York Office
buildings, Cosmos says June 10TH
Logic seems to be no better devel
oped in the United States than in oul
own country. We have heard recently
of the wise and draconian measure:
adopted there, in the name of hygiene
against spitters, but lo at the same
time they are setting up apparatus tt
get rid of dust by dispensing it through
the atmosphere. an essentially anti
hygienic proceeding. The dus
thus dislodged will of course settl;
elsewhere and will not find a perma.
leilI ItSlliS pldCe iii II TedcNeS tllt
mucous membrane of some patient o.
penetrates to his lungs. We may
therefore hope to accomplish in thi:
way, before long, the poisoning of th'
whole population"
A Boston physician, DR.. Simpson
maintains, according to Cosmos '"tha
the use of artificial teeth is bad fol
old persons, because 1t enables then
to eat. meat. The teeth, he affirms
fall out naturally at a certain age, be
cause nature means that at this par
ticular time of life we should lini
ourselves to a vegetable diet DR.
Simpson insists that his ideas on thi
point are by no means as paradoxica
as they may seem to some people,"
In discussing the possibilities o
liquid air, Prof. Elihu Thompson say
that one of its leading features, If /
were developed commercially, would
be its emergency value. BY this il
meant Its ability to obtain at will
sudden output far beyond the normal
Animal power notably has this emer
gency value, and the success of elec
trio trolley systems is in a great meas
ure owing to the fact that when needed
the stations can be called upon fo
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