Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1903-01-08
DOOM OF The HORSE SOUNDED.
Mr.. Edison says his Storage Battery
will be put on the Market
This Month

New York, Jan. 2. Thomas A.
Edison the inventor, thinks that
the coming years will practically
annihilate space aud time SO far
as communication between the
people of the earth are concerned.
The horse as beast of burden
of traffic will disappear, the steam
locomotive will be back number
while wireless telegraphy will be
a success. In addition to all this
medicine will give way to surgery
and diet. If all this does not
happen during the year twill be
in a comparatively short time.
His new years prediction is full
of promise.
II look for a wonderful year,
said the wizard as he surveyed
4 his surroundings. "There is
more activity in science than
there has ever been before, more
men are working on big projects
z and great discoveries would be
only natural.
For myself, my storage bat
terry, on which i have worked for
four years, will be put on the
market this mouth. 1t solves the
traction problem and its intro
duction means that the horse will
have to go.
II expectsto give up practical
invention for two years. am
going to experiment-going to
delve in some problems that l
have put by for an idle time-and
for once am going to work with
out having the production of a
commercial commodity in view.
| am going into the byways Of
SCIENCE. prefer not to say what
my experiments will be. Yes,
trying to get electricity direct
from coal is one of them.
.'The wireless telegraphy | as.
suredly expect to see perfected for
commercial purposes-if not fully
so in 1908 at least advanced to-
ward that end. The right KIND
of man is working on it, practi-
cal man, an earnest man and l
have confidence in him. AS to
the objection that messages may
be tapped--that's as far as the
objectors can see now. That
may be true to-day; tomorrow
it may be different.
''I'm not interested in the fly
ing machine. / could never see
any commercial use for 1t. !
have never had time to read much
about it.
81 expect to see electricity sup-
plant steam as a motive power.
In fifteen years electricity will be
the railway motive power--19o3
will advance it in that direction.
''Nineteen hundred and three
will bring great advances in sur
gerry, in the study of bacteria, in
the knowlege of the cause and
prevention of disease. Medicine
is played out. Every new discov-
cry of bacteria shows us all the
more convincingly that we have
been wrong and that the million
tons Of stuff we have taken was
all useless.
They may even discover the
germ Of old age. / don't predict
it, but it might be by the sacri-
fice of animal life human life
could be prolonged.
'sThe great problems of the
year are the problems Of fighting
bacteria, of getting electricity di.
rect from coal, of getting power
from the elements cheaplv and II
the many uses Of electricity l.
manufactures.
1.-THE newspapers arc among
the great agents that will grow
better in 1908 and ID the years t
come. They are the great schoo
A man who does not read tn,
newspapers might as we'll ,b'
dead. They are 4 powerful in
fiuence for advertisement. The,
are getting better, they are, print
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