The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-12-31
NINE NEW INVENTIONS.
Edison Says They Will Soon Come
and Pave the Way for Hundreds

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and Pave the Way for Hundreds
More.
(Thos. A. Edison in n. Y. Times.)
The next era will mark the most
wonderful advance in science and in
vention that the world has ever
known or hoped for. So vast will that
advance be that we can now have
scarcely any conception of its scope,
but already great many of the in
ventions of the future are assured.
It is only of those which I regard as
practical certainties that l shall
speak here.
l. Within the next twenty or thirty
years-and it will start within the
next two or three-concrete archi-
lecture will take enormous strides
forward; the art of moulding con-
crete will be reduced to science of
perfection, and, what is equally i'm
portant, of cheapness; there will rise
up a large number of gifted archi-
tects, and through their efforts cities
and towns will spring up in this
country beside which Turner's pic
ture of ancient Rome and Carthage
will pale into nothingness and the
buildings of the Columbia exhibition
will appear common. But great ex-
pense will not attend this; it will be
done 80 that the poor will be able to
enjoy houses more beautiful than the
rich now aspire to, and man earn
Ing $3.50 day, with family to sup
port, will be better housed than the
man of today who is earning $lO.
q. Moving picture machines Will
be so perfected that the characters
will not only move, but will speak
and all the accessories and ehects
of the stage will be faithfully pro-
duced on the living picture stage.
This, Of course, will not be done as
well as on the regular stage, but its
standard will approach very near to
that, and the fact that such enter
tainments will be furnished for 5
cents will draw vast numbers of the
working classes. The result will be
that the masses will have the advan-
tage of the moral of good drama,
they will find an inexpensive and i'm
proving way of spending the evening
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will be sounded.
8. In perhaps fifteen or twenty
years-depending on the financial
condition of The country-the loco
motive will pass almost out OF use,
and all our main trunk lines will be
operated by electricity.
A. A new fertilizer will spring in
to existence, containing large per-
centage of nitrogen. This will be
drawn from the air by electricity, and
will be used to increase the arability
of the land. Even now this is done to
q large extent in Sweden.
5. All our water power will be utl-
lized by electricity to an extent now
almost unthought of, and will be
used with great advantage, both IN
dustrial and for railroads.
s. A successful aerial navigation
will be established for
mails-and achieve a sound, practi-
cal working basis.
Z. We shall be able to protect our
selves against environment by the
use Of serums and things of that sort,
so that the general state of health
will be improved and the average
span of life will increase by large
percentage. The grand fight which is
being made against tuberculosis and
cancer will reach successful cul-
mination, and those diseases will be
entirely mastered.
8. A new force in nature, of some
sort or other, will be discovered by
which many things not now under
understood will be explained. We,
unfortunately, have only five senses;
If we had eight, we'd know more.
9. We shall realize the possibili-
ties of our coal supply better and
learn, how to utilize them so that 80
per cent of the efficiency will not be
thrown away, as it is today.
Finally, let it be said, hardly any
piece of machinery now manufactur-
ed is more than 10 per cent. per-
feet. As the years go on this will be
improved upon tremendously; more
automatic machinery will be devised
and articles of comfort and luxury
will be produced in enormous num-
bers at such small cost that all
classes will be able to enjoy. the bene-
fits of LEN.
These are some of the inventions
which the word is awaiting which it
is sure of seeing realized. Just how
they will be realized is what the in
ventors are working now to deter
mine.
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