The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-30

railway has brought with It, In 1853 Ee
constructed the first steam engine that
would work satisfactorily. 1t was he who
suggested the metric system which has
been adopted all over Europe.
Next to steam It is electricity that has
done most for the advancement of the
race during this century. and formost
among the original minds that solved the
preliminary problems making advance
rnent possible was Michael faraday DBL
1S6O. He may well be called tho frat
electrician for his discovery OF the prin-
ciples of votaic and magnetic Induction
laid the basis of the science Of applied
electricity. Before his time scientists
knew that there was a force which they
agreed to call electricity, but what could
be done with II remained 10 DO proved by
Faraday's experiments. That electricity
was possessed OF a chemical quality had
not even been suspected until his expert
nents in what has since been known as
eiectroiysis.
John Ericsson Qs03-lssso was a competi-
tor of Stephenson In the trial OF iocomo-
tiyes in 1923. but his work was 10 be con-
nected more with the development OF To-
comotion by water than on land. BY the
time he was 10 years old his inventive
genius had commenced 10 work. but IL
was only after his coming TO the United
States in 1888 that his most famous work
was done. lie had previously invented
the hot-air engine, which has been 40
well utilized In our modern gus engines:
but he win live longest in the memory
OF men as tho inventor OF the screw pro-
peller for ships. The first vessel to which
he applied this original device was the
Princeton, in Is43. His place In history win
be always connected also with his con-
ception OF the Monitor, which played 40
great q part in the naval engagement in
Hampton roads. The type OF vessel mod
eled after this first example is called a
monitor even now. In the later years OF
his life Ericsson devoted his inventive
genius 20 the perfecting OF torpedoes and
torpedo-boats.
Natural science has progressed maryel-
onsly in these hundred years, and 1t is 70
the mind OF George CiiYier u7e9-isx2) that
much OF u ~ due What I1nnaeus had
dope In the previous century toward tho
classification OF animals was now put
upon scientific basis. Cnvier established
the history of the animal kingdom in the
lsht OF CONF aratige anatomy and laid
the foundations OF the study OF urehls-
torie animal life by his wonderful restor-
auons ot extinct Species from single frax-
ments. IL ie "a comuo npians now 10 speak
OF the age Of tho mammoth or tho plesl-
osaarus. cuvier was the FIRST TO grasp
VA" Tact that our age ~ only the laiest
IN long series OF geologic ages.
The natural successor Of cuyier. profit-
ING py h1s researches and at the same
Ntne bringing 20 bear new theory b.
winch ne explained the relationship be-
tween me INHERENT species In the animal
htnsdDfa was Charles Darwin Usas- lssgg
~ seems strange 70 us that II Is less than
gitt years since the publication Of the
origin OK Species. Ia which the principle
o. evolution was laid down explicitly for
the htEt time. for II has been 20 generally
accepted that II 10 ss familiar almost "a
our 4, y, g. Others bad dgmly perceived
something OF this universal Jaw. but Oar
win made II clear. and furnished the key
70 the many problems of zoology which
h~d been considered unsoivabIe before his
'4ine' Ftis work crowned that OF Cgyisr.
Medical science has proar.ssfd along
the runway % Dacteriol3Ey chiefly dur
ms 'He century, ara among Ghe leaders ia
thls NoFS has been Louis Pazteuf G5Z2-
l'ss). ~ young man he succeeded IN
sowing more than one difficult problem Ia
CHEMISTRY, interesting the world og Sci
ence ~ his discoveries IL the neld OF
bacterial life. He devised a method Of
hitratlon o. water Witch has stood the
best tests, based az It Is upon solid scien-
TIC principles. His work best known 10
the public, however. ia his discovery OF
the virus BY which rabies Is prevented
" medical science has made some steps
forward. surgical science has advanced by
leaps and strides. Much Of tails has been
made possible by the discovery Of anass-
tnsues ana antsspticss but chlsay by the