Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
HOME BUILT
IN II HOURS
WIZARD EDISON PERFEcTs THE
MOLD SYSTEM
WIRELESS TELEGRAPH WONDERS
YET TO COME
In Ten Years Msrconi VIII Be Able to
Send 1000 Words Minute.
New Storage Battery
ls Ready

car. Eiectrocheuical society and showir
them through his laboratories and plants
at Orange, N j., Thomas A. Edison
made these statements:
Give Marconi ten years and he will be
serding over the Atlantic 1000 words a
minute by wireless and will be receiving
al the same rate of speed The only
limit 10 speed ir sending now is caused
by tho absorption of the electric waves
by thA wire or cable. There is no such
absorption N wireless telegraphy.
New York and London will be in free
communication by wireless telegraphy be-
fore long
"There Will follow this interesting ques-
tion: Is the second, third, fourth and
firth man to apply wireless between the
continents TO acquire the benefits that
Marconi should enjoy for his labor?
There Is no franchise-giving power for
tie use of the air. but there is a COM
ron law, and it is now being invoked
in the suit between the New York, New
Haven & Hartford road and the Bell
Telephone company, over the high in
duction currert OF the former since 1t
laid its electric system.
Marconi to Get the Benefit
ssThe decision will be in favor OF the
man who first used the air or the earth
in commercial achievement. The COM
mon law will see that the founder OF q
service is not hurt by follower.
Next summer l. will build within
twelve hours a three-story house on q
lot 25x4b feet. 1t will cost only $1,000, and
win be built on the basis of its owner
ship by the $50 a day laborer VINO
works on 1t. 1 have a model of the hrst
house that is to be built. 1t will be
bnilt during the span of twelve hours
and will include plumbing, heating ap-
paratus and everything that means for
comfort today and beauty in architecture
am December of this year will begin
to manufacture my perfected storage
battery 1t will mean the elimination Oh
the horse and the clearing of traffic con-
aestion in New York and other cities
have managed to perfect the battery
through series of tests so that IL Will
have durability and will mean the use
in trucks and wagons by the Tenth ave-
nue. butcher as we'll as others VINO can
AFFORD to pay more for traffic facilities.
Mr.. Edison was in splendid health and
fine humor He said that he still man
aged to sleep soundly six hours night.
he was as enthusiastic as boy over
his own working apparatus, his own oe-
signs and Marconi5 recent acnleVeHenl'
After predicting that there would be
an attempt to overcrowd the intercon-
tinental wireless field and that Maroon
would win out in the end, MT Eolson
dropped the wireless and hustled toWaru
a freight elevator in his phonograpn rec
ord factory, pursued by the visiting
scisntists On the top floor he showed his
visitors into sunlit room. In the center
of the room stood big model of three
story house,
~ hive had New York architects work
ing on the plans of that" he said, and
srn ready to begin on it myself. In ract'
have already made the molds TOT tne
window castings. Next summer VIII
build just such house witnin t"elVe
hours at an expense of $1,000, and the man
Who labors on it will know that it was
huilt on his basis of wage-$1.50 day.
Presto! and the House Is Up
what / am going to inaugurate." neI
said to reporter, 'is this. am
going to fashion cast iron molds for the
entire house. This outfit VIII cost SSV, Joo
for a house of this design All the
builders will have to do is to put 1t Up
and pour in the concrete. Then they VIII
allow six days for settling and drying
and the family may move In. The cast
iron mold of that house may be used on
countless other buildings.
..The economic value of this rests, for
one instance. in that the house will never
be in need of repair. The roof and floors
will be OF concrete; the concrete will he
made on the very site; there will be 10
fire insurance, as another instance of its
saving value; the man who owns the
house can let his children hack at 1t with
hatchets and axes and lose nothing but
the hatchets and axes There will be TO
wood in it save for strip upon which
carpets may be tackled to hold them
down.
All of the more recent structures in the
group of laboratories of Mr.. Edison s
plant are Of cement made by him. 1t was
pointed out yesterday by a scientist that
his grade of cement had been tested IN
the destruction of San Francisco and that
the buildings put up with this material
had not toppled
The model of his ready-to~pour-and-
occupy building is in the Queen Anne
style, high peaked roof. and with a front
that is suggestive of the exclusive
''brownstone 'front.' sections of New York
city With its three floors and width
and depth it would comfortably take care
Of at least three families of working
people.
IT will build this house on full scale
next summer for $1,000" repeated Mr.. Edi
son to the scientists about him, ''and 1
will complete it in twelve hours"