The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-04-01
A DREAM OF THE FUTURE.
of Seeing by Wire May
Soon Become an Assured Fact.

Will the world 90 around some
day before our eyes. wherever we may
be: VIII events long way of be
brought within our sight as they Oc-
cur? asks writer in the ''ildon
Mail
! Time and space are disappearing
fast There is still alive the widow
OF the messenger who hurried to
! Rome to find Sir Robert Peel when
! lie came home to form his first minis
try. and Sir. Robert travelled by the
same means and at the same speed rs
the Emperor. Hadrian. travelled from
! Rome in the days when Rome ruled
the world. Men still ike who rode
in the first trains. spoke over the first
telephones and Sent off the first tel
egralnS The very men who gave us
telegraphS and telephones are invent
ing for us still.
And one OF them. the man whom
the world can never pay its debts. is
on the eve. we are told. OF announc-
ing an achievement with whick nothing
in the world today can compare. Mr..
Edison. who turned night into day
with his electric light. who made a
little box speak SO that friend may
talk to friend across the earth. and
the message spoken today may be
heard after ages OF time, is said to
hope soon to invent a telephone which
will carry not only sound. but sight
or which will bring, perhaps we
should say, not only the human
voice along the wire, but the image OF
him who utters it as we'll.
1t is one OF the great dreams, and,
if the brief telegram which came from
New York last week is true, most OF
us will live to see it realized. More
than once we have been told that the
great secret Of picking up the waves
of light has been discovered, and See
ing by wire" has been declared to be
an accomplished fact And the picture
of an event two miles away has been
actually seen. we know, at the other
end OF the wire. But it is the genius
OF Mr.. Edison to change theory into
fact. 10 bring wonderful things out OF
the clouds down to our common
earth. and the announcement that has
just been made means that at last
the secret OF the laboratory is to be
the possession OF us all.
Nothing has yet been made known
as to Mr.. EGison's method OF making
the telephone an instrument for re-
hecting an image as we'll as for con-
veying a sound. but it is interesting
to remember how this result has al
ready been attained by an inventor
of whose invention we have yet heard
very little.
Jan Szezepanik, before ne carved
mis- way to fame which may yet grow
into immortality, was village school
master in Poland. the land which gave
him birth. He had been to school
himself, as we are told, at Cracow,
had read translations of Shakespeare
and the books of Dr. Smiles; studied
optics and electricity; and at 20 was
earning $40 a year by teaching fifty
boys at the Polish village OF Korzyna
But today, at 81, he is doing other
work. Jan Szezepanik-pronounced
Shtepanik-needs no introduction to
the world as an inventor His famous
weaving machine will produce a web
in as many hours as it would take
years by the old way. Two or three
years ago, in the presence of Francis
| Joseph, the young inventor establish
ed his claim to have invented ma
chine as wonderful as any Of the Won
derful machines Of our tine At the
Technical Art Museum, in Vienna,
he presented to the Emperor OF Aus
tria the first tapesty produced by his
new process, a marvellous allegorical
representation of homage to the en-
peror, containing 2ooooo,ooo crossings
OF silk threads! More than 200 square
yards of cards would have been nee
essary to the nroduction of this web