Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-12-29

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TN A swift review OF what has been
accomplished in the century now
- coming 10 us end one Is most fOrci.
bly, impressed with the fact that all
knowledge progress. civilization, IS Gu
mulatlye and continuous. No century
or cycle Of the worlds icons stands by
Itself alone and complete; no great in
ventlon has sprung full armed from the
head OF imperial Jove but all the cen-
turtles since the beginning Of time have
been interdependent. forming an UNI
broken Though perhaps at periods IN.
terrupted) chain, making, If not for per
fiction, at least for a higher plane In
the cosmic scheme Of civilization
The divine torch Of human progress.
lighted az the primal fame bestowed by
the Creator, has been passed from hand
10 hand and In even a brief resume Of
what this century has done for its sue.
cessors It's Indebtedness 10 the past can.
not be ignored.
At the close Of the seventeenth cen.
fury for example. the stupendous
mind Of Newton and the penetrating
genius OF Locke had laid their systems
Of matter and mind before the world"
And who can gauge the innuenceof such
minds as franklin Button Cuyier. Count
Rumford, Paine, Washington, Jeffer.
son and a host Of others who lived and
applied their talents TO the solution OF
problems having a worldwide slgnii.
canoe IN that formative period known
as the eighteenthcentury? Some OF them
wrought blindly, as the reyolutlonlsts
Of France: some inteligently, as the
coloniols who rose against the usurpa-
tlons Of King George III, but the iron
was on the anvil, and they helped to
forge II into the perfect product OF to-
day.
Electricity, that great prlmogenlal
force which has revolutlonized the
world, was dlmly apprehended more
than 1000 years ago. Step by step the
inventors OF the past CROPPED their way
along, in 1929 discovering the distinc.
ton between conductors and noncon-
ductors; in l1i5 giving electric shocks
TO skeptlcs and even talking OF apply.
ing the life giving force to the growing
OF vegetables.
The whole world knows OF Franklin's
experiments in bringing lightning from
the clouds, but few are aware OF the
fact that In 1893 one Jonathan Grout OF
Massachusetts, invented a telegraph BY
winch he sent a message and received
an answer over a distance Of 90 miles.
Experimentation went on IN England.
france and Germany, each individual
investigator contributing something 20.
ward the final result until leaning
across the Intervening years and cross.
ing the boundary between the last cen.
fury and this, the electric spark be-
came endowed with almost human can
abilities OF speech when. IN 1887. Morse
He'd his caycat for his great invention.
the instrument which was destined 10
transform the world and place far dis
tant countries In close communication.
stu, though Il has redounded 10 our
credit that Morse was an American. In
strict justice TO the truth we cannot
claim That he was the sole inventor of
the telegraphic instrument Mighty
minds In different lands simultaneously
worked out the problem and. as I'm the
case OF the most recent development OF
the science wireless telegraphy. the
men Who appear most prominently
Identified with the invention were mere
" adapters and intelligent co-ordlnat-
ors, And so with submarine tsrsgra-
ply Though Morse laid his first cable
IN 1872 and Colt successfully operoteS
one between Fire island and New York
CITY IN the same year. theirs were not
the iirst attempts But no amount Of
disparagement can rob Morse and Mar
conf Of their laurels or deprlve Fird
OF the title bestowed by John BRIGHT
when In 1857, after years OF effort no
mad spanned the Atlantic as "the Co.
IulnDus OF modern times who by HIS
cable had moored the new world along
side the oldl"
80 also In regard 10 the discovery of
the energy latent ln steam. first p,t.pt
Tor the steam engine was issued In t-.t
put lhe century was three-0uartors
gone before Watts important improve.
mehts We're perfected IN this country,
~ 1913 Oliver Evans devised NOR
pressure. noncondeusIng engine which
ne placed ln -four and saw mills ANA In
4Wt De built q nat bottomeB n1,t
mounted 1t on wheels drove IL by ne
own engine 70 ihe river bank and there