The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-07-23
Idaho Country Life r
ELECTRIC CITY OF THE FUTURE
This Wonderful Force is Being Har-
messed and Trained To DO
Many Things


All the well-known scientists and
business men of today agree that the
city OF the future will be an electrical
city. With a very few exceptions all
the manifold requirements for speed
and economy will be met by electric
ity.
Even the food products consumed
III the electric city of the future will
be the results of electricity applied to
agriculture. The country will have
an abundance of electrical power for
light, power and heat on the farms.
The farming communities will -four
ish under the stimulus OF an electified
topsoil, and an increased absorption
OF nitrogen, procured direct from the
atmosphere by electricity. These
processes are already successful as
experiments on small scale.
In the business of transportation
the electrically propelled aeroplane
will doubtless develop to supremacy
for high-speed mail, and perhaps pas
senger service. The electric gyroscope
will furnish stability for this device
and also for monorail, high speed
trains electrically driven. The loco
motive will have come into Its own
for general freight and passenger SER
vice.
Wireless telegraphy has already
ceased to be toy and the city OF the
future will not be covered with a net
work Of wires as at present. Wire
less telegraphs will communicate with
all parts Of the world and wireless
telephones will be used for both local
and long distance service. Even the
transmission of the power currents
will be effected through wireless, or
the atmospheric electrical waves. The
storage batteries OF the future will Be
light and compact and very easily ap-
piled to vehicles and boats.
In the new electrical city man will
do the thinking and electrical driven
machinery will do the work. Time
was, and that only q very few years
ago, when nearly all the work In the
world, from sweeping the floor to
pounding out horse shoe nails, was
done by hand. Today the applica-
ton Of electricity III the workadap
world passes all comprehension. The
powerful motors have adapted them
selves to all kinds OF work In the shop
office or home, and the largest factor
les, from the watch making shops to
the giant steel mills, are driven BY
electricity. Motor applications are
increasing every day and 1t Is esti-
mated that within the next fifty years
every industry under the sun, and
nearly all the work done now BY
hand, will be electrified.
To enumerate the thousand and
one ways in which electricity has al
ready tean applied is superflous; but
Its unise.ss. ada2tability suggests
wonders ,l.re.
The EfAa ast "ers are the out
growth OF small beginnings. 1t was
only twenty-five years ago that the
incandescent lamp was perfected and
today nearly every home and building
In the cities is lighted by electricity.
About three years ago the General
Electric Company announced that It /
was possible to do all the cooking In
the home, hotels or restaurants BY |
electricity. A great many of the best /
men of the time laughed at such an
absurd statement but today electric
cooking Is growing faster than mean
descent lighting did twenty years ago.
And with the exhausting Of our wood
md coal electricity is bound to be-
come the main source of heat in the
very near future. 1t has already
proven itself cleaner, quicker and
more effective than any other kind of
leat for culinary work and 1t is only
question of few years more and
electricity will be even cheaper than
,as or coal.
Even today nearly all the kitchen
york can be done by electricity with a
mall motor, provided with a double
ttachment shaft for the necessary
levices for coffee grinding, meat and
God chopping, egg beating, cream
Whipping, cake mixing, butter churn-
ng, grating, Ice chopping, cream
reezing, noodle cutting, vegetable
airing, polishing and grinding, run
ing the sewing machine, etc.
1t almost seems as though we
ould soon have an electric cook and
completely automatic.
apable of doing the work for large
amily in a couple of hours use per
ay, and started and stopped at the a
Urn Ola switch. /