The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-12-09

in abundance, while mamoth Galvanic
batteries, immersed in the ocean and con-
nected with the land by cables. supplied
inexhaustible quantities of electric ener-
gies
From the atmosphere had oeeh wrought
most vital changes. for, in place of the
old-time formula of the elements o, N,
etc, with their respective ratios in the
scale of ten, there had been discovered
volatile buoyant, and life giving element
in the air composing six parts of the ten
, conductive to enhanced life and health
conditions, but enabled man, from its
extreme bouyancy, to overcome the force
of gravitation and hence to sustain bodie
of considerable weight in the ar Through
the discovery of this buoyant principle
named Argon, flying machines called Aero
motors had become as common and prac-
ticable as formerly bicycles buggies and
carriages had been.
These aerial machines were cons tructed
of Aluminum and other light but firm
materials and having nearly the exact
shape of an immense bird.
The elongated hollow body was the
reservoir for generating and containing
the buoyant Argon by mechanism which
! brought the electric current in contact
with small quantity of liquided air.
The car or receptacle for its aerial pas
senger was fixed just beneath the body of
the great metallic bird, and when the
machinery was started which generated
its lifting power and had lifted the aero
| moter to any desired height two great
aluminium wings and a fan-like tail
could be opened and expanded in the
manner of opening an umbrella. The
aeromoter b-ing raised to the proper alti-
tude and its wings expanded, slight ex-
haust of the buoyant Argon gave the ma
chine tendency to drop downward, but
slight change of the eings, which. acting
as aero-planes, caused the whole MACHINE
to move swiftly forward with downward
curve OF flight for some distance when.
by an upward lift of the wings. an Undue
| ton OF Argon and from the impetus Of
its downward fight. the great bird would
mount, in an upward curve of flight to its
former elevation. to repeat again 9nd
its alternate downward and upward
curves of flight.
| SO perfect was the mechanism and con-
troll of these machines that accidents
| from the use of them we're even more rare
than from the use of the ordinary vehicles
OF former times, although these aeromo tiers
were now in constant and general use
Great changes had also been wrought in
our railroad economies Where once our
railway mechanisms implied broad and
| dlshguring road-bed cut through the land
| with their thousands of dangerous cross
| ings, and those road beds crowned with a
network OF stee. rails to support a multi
tud5 OF uncertain wheels all trains now
glided along with the gentle aud easy mo-
ton OF vessel on smooth sea, the cars
being suspended from long steel bars
which glided along a continuous system of
rollers attached to a metallic frame. work
| above, and which was supported, on either
side Of the train, by tall iron pillars. The
motive power in propelling all railway
trains as also all ocean vessels, was the
expansive force of liqniheel air. In fact
liquited air had become a general and
most beneticent factor in the mechanical
and sanitary uses and economies of man
In every town and at intervals through
Tout the country were factories for con
densing and storing this product of the at
nosphere. Its liberation inldwellings and
towns gave man, not only the power to
modify temperature to the most desirable
degree, but furnished the human lungs
with the pure and life giving Oxygen I'M
contaminated by faint or microbe.
Telegraphs and telephones had been
greatly discarded. or at most those retain
ed had been so improved that, with con
bination of the two mechanisms, it was
possiblefor distant friends not only to con-
verse with each other as if face to face,
but for each to see the other as if face to
| face.
Wireless telegraphy and thought trans
ference through space had become dem
onstrated and practical fact. Amazing
progress had also been made in all arts
and sciences, both in modes of conception
and in execution. In printing. in place
of the old laborious and tedious process of
type-setting, letter by letter, an electrical
device set up the com. osition word by
word, as rapidly as the compositor's volt
ton could act
In fact, all mental and physical labor of
man had become source of supreme de-
sire and pleasure
Trained thought had resulted in per-
fected modes, and most intelligent skill
iulness Elaborate machinery rendered
had and continuous physical action un-
necessary. The elimination of selfishness
and Incorporate greed and desires had re-
duced mans life action and labor, and his
lie thought to the securing of beautiful