The San Francisco call., 1909-11-14

what source will the air leviathan derive its power?
Why not electric energy with wireless transmission?
That would be the ideal air power, doing away with
bulky, weighty fuel tanks and heavy engines
Already we have demonstrated in laboratory ex-
periments the possibility of wireless transmission OF
electric power. For instance fan motor has been
run at distance of 20 feet from dynamo.
suppose now that this is done upon gigantic
scale. From huge station at Niagara which will
utilize all of the supendous water power there, or
from enormous solar tidal motor plant, electric
energy will be generated and distributed to the air
fleet of the world.
To prevent stealing or any confusion Of power the
seecve system as used today in wireless telegraphy
will be employed That is to each ship will have
a motor tuned to a certain number Of wave v1bra-
tions will alone be able to receive and use those
power vibrations 1t will be regularly registered and
charged for its use OF power Dy motor
This wireless energy may also be transmitted
trains and ocean liners. to all the wheels OF the
great age of machinery to be-"
lies beyond the widest dreams Certain 1T IS that its
fullest power, its widest field is unknown and un-
dreamed Of
At Niagara today they are sounding the length and
depth of temperature, reproducing almost the pro-
of creation. Substances as hard as diamonds
are made-indeed, real diamonds may eventually be
manufactured there and shipped away in peck boxes
metals fused and substances united, nitrogen Is
actually sucked from the air and made into fertilizers.
a hundred other processes employed marvellous
and so practical in results that there is no telling
what new and wonderful products it may be possible
to manufacture and manufacture cheaply.
Already it is possible to send tiny spark OF cleo
trcity distance of $500 miles and have wireless
teegraphy upon a commercial basis Within the very
future, so its promoters assert, communication
will established between the ends of the world for
rate as low cent word. Wireless telephony
is soon to follow and undoubtedly many other mar
vels of the spark and sounding disc.
Wireless teegraphy or rather the principle Of it, is
destined to play most important part along many
and diverse lines. very interesting one is pointed
out by naval expert
Death Dealing Wireless
The receiving instrument in wireless teegraphy.
coherer, it is called is small bulb about thick
lead pencil and two inches long. In the center
of the bulb and between the ends of two silver plugs
finely powdered fragments of nickel and silver are
affected by the operation of a spark thousands of
miles away and by alternately "cohering deco
herring" pass on the electric currents In dots and
dashes to telegraphc sounder.
Now says the expert apply this device to naval
warfare. Suppose that number Of these coherers
secreted by spies within bags of powder stored
in the enemys ships They tuned that they
will only be affected by transmtter in our hands
How easy TO send nash o. electricity and blow in
waves. you understand not air They permeate
steel or any barrier just as readily they go
the
Il mention this one possibility simply to prove a
greater fact and give wider glance into the future
that with such discoveries warfare will be made so
hideous that it must eventually cease altogether to
exist"
But with all its wonderful development and varied
application electricity still remains mystery There
It's earth currents, for instance Just recently bat
teres burned out in the underground wire system
g IN new 1OIk Dy SOIo tremendous current, and
with batteries the telephone and telegraph serv-
ice continued without interruption
What and whence this river of electrictv2
How and where will IL be found and utilized?
Again, there's the and untried field OF chenis-
try The discovery OF radium completely unset soma
Of It's basic laws Is it possible that, working along
lines. we shall be able to transmute metals to
turn lead into gold and upset the present worlds
monetary standard? Such advances are O>s no means
improbable. Surely the miracle OF sadium means
other miracles.
The science of medicine is still more Indefinite. and
yet, together with surgery. it has practically been
revolutionized within the last score of years Tha
dread contagious diseases have been mastered the
blind made to see, the deaf to hear crippes to walk
erect vital organs formerly held exempt from the
surgeons knife are now successfully operatad or.
deed, the field is broad the advances foo n,an,,
to be even touched upon here.
These are the truths that concern us most. Trua
of medicine of less vital sciences that the
Is but Just begun that the future is pregnant witb
many more and still wonderful discoveries ---
Here is point in evidence: OF late the intarast
of the wcrld has been stirred with the mysteries ~
splritualism. So many and remarkable are IN
manifestations earnest Is the belief of anv sc;sr
lists OF note that the skepticaI are forcad -
face of this new word comes from Paris that the
apparent mysteries of spirtualism really nohin
more or less than the mysteries the human narvo,,
system, about which we know comparatively little
So here is a new and wonderful field for experi
mentation and discovery Perhaps along these lines
We shall solve the problem of what is life
People have ceased to marvel any more The rs,r
world is here, and its newness dazzes but docs ~.
disturb our belief But the greater glow by far Is the
glow just above the present day horizon the glow ~
the days to come, and are watching with &c.
eyes for the signs and realities After TODAY what,