The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-05
What Science Has ia
Store for the World
By-ANDREW CARNEGIE.

ByEANDREW
Passages From, Mr. carnegIe's Fc
How much further The steam engine Is 10
I be the handmade OF electricity cannot DO told,
3 for 1t seems Impossible to set limits to the
future conouests OF the S1atttr, which Ia prob
ably destined TO perform miracles tndreant OF
to-day, perhaps coupled IN some unthought OF
way. With radium, the youngest sprte OF tho
weird, uncanny tribe Of mysterious agents.
Uranium, the supposed basis OF the latest dis
covery, radiun. has only one fnionth part
The SLOW moving earth takes twenty-four
hours to turn upon It's axis. Radiurn covers
an equal distance while we pronounce Its
name. One and one. quarter seconds, and TWEEN
tty-fve thousand miles anrc trayersed. k Puck
promises to put his ."girdle round the earth
I. In forty minutes. Radlum would pass the
fairy glrillst IN Tho spin round sixteen hum
dred times. Thus truth. az II Is being evolved
1 in our day. becomes stranger than the widest
lmaginings OF fiction
Greater Discoveries Coming?
4 Our century seems on the threshold OF dis
coveries and advances, not less revolutionary,
from steam ana electricity .canst thou send
Elightnings TO- say 'Lo here I am z Z slencedt
man. y wna 80 obyiou,!y beyond his power e.
the question. Is Tyndal's prophecy to DO verb
fled that .the potency. OF all things Is yet
to be found In matter
Of Franklin and Watt would have been
meditating upon strange things these days if
they wero now alive.
1t was not until the Watt engine was ap-f
piled to steam navigation that the success
ct the latter became possible. II was only BY
that the steamship e the 1, product OF the
steam engine. and II u TO Watt we owe the
9 a en witch
keep Its course against wind and tide, almost
''unshaken OF motion."Nssfor this can now
b iantic from port 70 port now scarcely know
anything Of Irregular motion. and never more
than the gentleat Of slight heaves, even dur;
Catches the ruffian pillows by their tops,
Curling their nl2nstrous heads.
s The ocean ira versed a'i IN these ships. is q
sSn spent upon Il has BEG perhaps the
most enjoyable and the most healhful OF holi-S
day excursions: provided the prudent Ie.e,,r-
that wireless telegralnsA shall not follow. s$3
FL Watt Of course, knew. nothing OF the ther-
Smodynamio value Of. high t;emperature without
the value Of presslrcs. This had not been
even imasnsd either phil0 80
late as 1924. y Even III \ he had known about
it tho mechanical arts In his day were in mo
condition 10 permit ats use. Even high pres
sures were iinprnctlcable ito any great ex-g
ii is only during the past sewi'year that
turbines and superhsating. having long been!
OF revival They give great promise OF ad-s
yancement the hitherto insuper able niculties
& OF fabrication and packing having been over
Especially promises to Yield Substantial res
suits as compared with the practice with or
binary engines. but the margin Of saving In
CINE cannot be great. Lord Kelvin, however,
expects to be the final contribution of science
to the highest possible economy in the steam
II MIN M rs y
u In the January. ueo5) number Of 'Stevens In
stitute indicator. ' Professor Denton han an In
structiys resume 81 recent steam engine econ.
being applied to piston engines to operate with
the latter's exhaust: to iffrec the same say
f the e turbne IS i oompetiton
to the piston engine is mainly due to the fact
that Il more completely realizes the SS ex-
steam s history "a as the fnadamental factor OF
e mo4al ~ It's sasaei9us fGupder the
No Bounds to utiure w onders.
IN 1870 Britain had only $40; 900 horse power
n9lna1 United @ Whale
1t has Is 900, 900 nominal So. rapidly has steam
extended Its sway5 over most OF the earth IN
less than the span OF a K nah IS life. There
has never been any development IN the world, 8
history comparable to this, nor can we imagine
that such a rapid @transformatio lion can ever
come in the future What the future is finally
to bring forth even Imagination lis unable to
conceive. No bounds can be- set to Its forth
coming possible. even probable, wonders, but
as such a revolution as steam has brought
must come from a superior force capable OF
sdisplaclng steam. this would necessarily be
4 a much longer task than steam had in occu-
plying an entirely new field without a rival.
a. Nothing man has discovered or Imagined IS
to be named with the steam engine. It has
ssegyas The
n Bell transmitting speech through # the air
BY the telephone. are not less rious-be-
Ing more ethereal, perhaps I'm one sense they
are even more so-stil the labor OF the world
performed by heating. cold water places Watt
and his steam engine In. a class apart by IL
self, Many are the Inventions for applying
power: his creares the power ~ applies. =.
tiss Whether the. steam engine has reached Its
climax, and igas, oil. or other agents are
futurN Is q question now debated in scien-
stific circles. Much progress has been made
IN using these substitutes, and more is prob
able, as one obstacle after another is over
oil Is freely used 1t Seems, to the writer that
where coal is plentiful, the day is distant
when steam will not continue e to II be the
principal sourse Of power It will be a. world
fsurpriser3 that beats one horse power developed
more than this. however. lies theoretically in
gas, but there come these wise words . OF
sArago to mind persons whose whole lives
have been devoted to speculative labors nre
mot aware how great the distance As between
Its realizntion.!'t So true Watts ideas in the
brain, and the steam engine that lhe had to
evolve during nine long years, are somewhat
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