The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-14

fee at 0, works until IL or 1, goes out, takes
a couple Of cocktails eats a hearty lunch
con hurriedly, goes back TO his desk and
works until or O. hurries up town, stopping
OF for one or two more drinks, goes out
somewhere, eats an enormous dinner, goes
to the theater and then supper afterwsrd,
and finally tumbles into bed. 1t is that
| type Of man who often says TO me, I don't
see how you stand the strain OF working
the way you do day after day and night
after night In the laboratory. Work.
! Why, my work Is play compared With his,
and yet / am here on an average from
in the morning until 10 at night, but am
shut out from the world the work Is inter-
esting, there Is none Of the terrible strain
that comes to the man in the ely.
1T is imagination that maHes the poet;
II Is Imagination that makes the inventor,
| for the dream preoedes the work the result,
the effort Just as the writer thinks OF his
| plot and makes his characters work Il out,
30 the inventor labors toward something
which Is already perfect in his mind Any
man can become an inventor II he has i'm
agination and pertlnacity; an inventor ls
simply bulldog with poetic attachment,
that Is all.
| Nc lOnkoab llIuo eNoI Notheu COu-
tlnuously was FIVE days and Eve nights
without sleep. That was during some Of
the lighting experiments. Once I worked
four days and four nights-that was Just
before the opening Of the Pearl street sta
ton. We did not know what was going 90
happen; we expected something would
explode when we turned on the current,
Everybody said It was going to be failure,
When we turned on the current, however,
Il started all right, without hitch, and ran
for eight years.
what effect does the loss Of sleep hAvei
None at all. I have always been able 20
drop down and sleep any time, anywhere
and feel absolutely no III effects from my
long work. believe that people as . gem
eral thing sleep too much; three or four
hours are enough II Il Is good solid sleep.
not dreaming-that isn't sleep.
| sInsomnia7 have to laugh whom people
talk about that. A man came to me once
couldn't sleep, was troubled with insomnia
and was terribly worried. said IN cure
| you put him to work on a Mercury
pump. kept him at It told him he must
| finish il at a certain time and as he couldn't
sleep there was no excuse for his stopping
! At the end Of the third day we found the
! pump all broken to pieces and the victim
Of insomnia sound asleep on the ruins
Sleep is only an inheritance; n the SIN
should keep on shining people would get
| over the habit Of sleep in ',me.
! do l think wireless teleRraphy will
become perfected surely do. ! think
the greatest setback Il has ever had was
! the recent marriage Of Marconi, but he
will get over that in time and 60 on with
his experiment. II IL doubtful II be will
| he able TO overcome the Interference OF
other messages absolutely. II he does
then the cable il doomed, but that IA far ia
| the future.
do think It will ever be used to oom-
municate with other planetsi Now you
are getting out Of my reach. limit my
scientific researches below the apex Of the
Himalaya mountains and let Mr.. Tesla
have all the space above that-that Is his
! field the field OF astronomical electrios.
should say, however that question would
be settled by the telescope lens rather than
by the wireless telegraphy.
Il believe the coming great commercial
invention was the answer to the next
question will be the production Of cleo
tricity directly from coal without the inter-
vention Of machinery by the present process
we only gst 10 per cent. and the other
o. is thrown away
Mr.. Edison then told a little Of the process
Of invention. 1T 10 q great lesson in the
eternal law Of development. Ny own
experience, as well a. that Of other in
ventors / have talked to, IL that II you
getNsomething for nothing you may be
sure you are on the wrong road. II you
get the result without strenuous effort,
there IL only one rule, apparently, 70 follow,
and that Is to cast IL aside and begin all over
again, for you are on the wrong path
Al the end. Mr.. Edison spoke half feel
ingly, half humorously. Of the fact that he
is growing old.
Can you not invent something" was
asked, TO keep us ever young and falrf-
The Wizard nodded wisely 1T may come,
Il may come; not In my time. not yet: but
why notf
How BY the sacrifice Of animal life.
BY serums that will replace vornout tissues.
With IL should come, however, the mental
change, for when man has seen all has
worked and played and suffered and has
rea ched the life limit he n usually ready
TO 90. know my father a. o. was recon.
oiled and
well, shall he ready, too, but the
eyes grew interpretive, 1T would be in.
terestlng to know II life ever will be in
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