Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-13
MARCH OF PROGRESS
WHAT SCIENCE HAS DONE AND is
ABOUT TO DO FOR THE
WORLD.
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Traditions Thousands of Years Old
Have Lost Their Value by the In
vention and Perfection of Airships-I
Electricity Will Rule the World.
The science of the world has been
revolutionized. The traditions of thous-
ands Of years have been shattered,
methods of transportation, industries,
systems of lighting and heating, have
been turned topsy-turvy and relegated
to bygone era.
Coal has lost it's value. In ten years
possibly even five the world will
have moved forward a century in the
matter of development-it will have
arrived at the age of colossal and
Utopian achievements SO long assocl-
ated by the dreamers and dime novel
writer's with the year 1000.
Huge airships without wings or
other complicated mechanisms, will in
less than decade soar through the
heavens bearing tons Of freight and
hundreds of passengers.
The tremendous ocean liners upon
which millions of dollars are now law
ished in their construction, will be dis
posed of as so much junk; there will
no longer be any use for them.
Traffic will be removed from the wa
ter and taken up into the air Pas
sengers from New York and London
will take the air line The trip will be
a. ;,, rr Jou ND die.
asters resulting from storms at sea
and shipyrecks will be unknown.
Coal Done Away With.
When persons want their homes
heated they will merely press a button
and delightful warmth will at once
fill every room Their meals will also
be cooked by the mere pressing of a
disk no larger than the end of your lit
tie finger.
There will be no fires to make, no
coal to carry up from the cellar, no
ashes to make a dirt in the house, no
smoke or SCOT to stain and discolor the
walls and paper.
And all this will be done at the mere
est trifle of eXpense-at fraction of
the present cost.
The streets and the homes will be
lighted as brilliantly as in the daytime
and still pressing the button will Gre
ate or extinguish the radiant glow, or
regulate it's brilliancy.
Great trains will rumble across con-
tinents at now undreamed of speed.
But they will merely carry heavy
freight; the passengers will travel in
the even swifter flying machines,
where there will be no noise or jar
and no SCOT from the engine.
But even these heavy freight trains
will move at a speed utterly impossible
now for the fastest passenger ex-
presses.
Horses will no longer be used as
beasts of burden. Even the poorest
will glide through the streets in mex
pensive and noiseless automobiles -
machines that need no recharging; that
gather their forces of propulsion from
the air and will run on forever.
Electricity Only Force.
There will be one great universal
force, and one only-electricity
Prof. Albert Gallatin Whitney Of
Chicago says all these things have been
made possible. He has discovered a
cheap and feasible means for collecting
an inexhaustible supply of electricity
from the atmosphere.
Not only has he discovered the great
secret but he has demonstrated it full
ly, and has untold millions behind him
to exploit the continuance.
Every bit of electricity that has been
produced by man has been through a
churning process of some sort or 9TH
er-through the use of steam, water
power, or some force.
Many of the greatest intellects have
sought to grasp this problem of dis
pensing with the intermediate forces,
the use of costly quantities of coal to
produce steam for the engines of the
piping of large volumes of water to
run the turbines.
But it remains for Professor Whit
ney to grasp the keynote to the So
luton.
From time immemorial men have
sought to solve the mystery in the
flight of birds. They had observed
such heavy birds as the eagle and the
condor can soar through space for
miles without the slightest movement
of their wings.
L HSy Adu oOu6HI IuS SSClSL VI Ills
phenomenon that they might dupli-
cate it by mechanical means and en-
throne themselves as lords of the air.
But the solution of this, too, remained
for Professor Whitney.
Newton's Theory Exploded.
Whitney in his wonderful invention
has set the laws of gravitation aside;
has demonstrated the Newtonian theo-
ry to be incorrect.
Newton claims this world and all
the other planets, and everything on
each of these worlds-all that fills
space, in fact, is part of great
scheme having a center of gravity.
As stone thrown into the air will
drop back to the earth, SO, claims
Newton, the planets would fall in
to the sun by reason of this law of
gravitation were it not for the attrac-
ton of other planets beyond.
The attraction of gravitation is
everywhere, finds all space, is the
Newtonian theory. And scientists &C
cepted it until recently-just as the
wise men once accepted the theory
that the earth was fiat, until Columbus
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