Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-02-15
GREAT FUTURE,
SAYS edison
Next Era Will Bring
Most Wonderful
Inventions

The next era will mark the most
wonderful advancement in invention
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 al
ready great many of the Inventions
of the future are assured. 1t is only
of those which regard as practical
certainties that speak here, says
Thomas A. Edison in the New York
| Times.
"First--Within the next 30 or 80
years-and II will start within the
next two or three-concrete architeC-
! ture will take enormous strides for
ward; the art of moulding concrete
will be perfected and, what is equal
ly important, cheapened; there viii
rise up Il large number of gifted ar
chitects. and through their efforts
cities and towns will spring up in
this country beside which Turner's
picture of ancient Rome and Garth
age will pale into nothingness and
the buildings of the Columbian ex-
position will appear common. But
great expense will not attend this;
It will be done so that the poor will
be able to enjoy houses more beauti-
full than the rich now aspire to, and
the man earning $50 day, with
a family to support, will be better
housed than the man of today who
is earning $40.
"Second-Moylng picture machines
will be so perfected that the charact-
ers Will not only move, but speak,
and all the accessories and effects of
the stage will be faithfully produced
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 entertainment will
be furnished for Ave cents will draw
vast numbers of the working classes
The result will be that the masses
, Will have the advantage of the moral
of good drama, they will find an mex
pensive and improving way of spend.
ing an evening and the reign of the
saloon will end.
"Third-In perhaps Is or 20 years
depending ON the financial condi.
ton of the country-the locomotive
will pass almost altogether out OF
use and all our main trunk railways
, Will be operated by electricity.
, "Fourth-A new fertilizer will
spring into existence. containing 9
large percentage of nitrogen. Thii
will be drawn from the air by cleo
tricity, and will be used to increas,
/ the arability of the land. Even nov
, this Is done to n large extent II
, Sweden.
, "Fifth-All our water power will
be utilized by electricity to an exten
= now almost unthought of, and viii
/, be used with great advantage, boil
= industrially and for railroads.
= "SiXth-A successful aerial nayi
S cation will be established -perhap
: for mails-and will achieve a sound
practical working basis.
}. "Seventh-A new force in natur
G OF some sort or other will be discov
cred by which many things not nov
c understood will be explained. We un
d ortunately have only five senses;
e we had eight we'd know more.
(, "Eighth-We will realize the pos
= sibilities of our coal supplies bette
and will learn how to utilize ther
so that 90 per cent of the eflicienc
| will not be thrown away as It is Il
day.
Finally, let 1t be said, hardly an
piece of machinery now manufat
tured is more than 10 per cent pei
feet, AS the years 80 on this will /