The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-05
BRAINS OF THE YEAR
 ADVANCE THE WORLD

port. cover 27o miles in varying weather. against head winds and carrying nine men. break of pro- peller, descended safely. repair damage rise and go so miles farther. land easily and at will. and then cut home again, will, in the language or the man in the street take lot or beating" In 1900 the Count managed to do seven miles above Lake con stance; in June of this year he cover ed 860 miles in thirty-seven hours, and In March he demonstrated that height as well as distance is In his grasp. ascending 5000 feet near Friedrich shofen.
 As for the sphericals they. too, have been busy and prospering. The .Un- iversity City" won the National Bal loon Contest in June, starting from Indianapolis' and achieving 3S0 miles A few days later the "He1vetia," in little matter of eleven hours. sailed oyer Mount Blanc. The New York to capture the Lahn Cup was aloft Ave minutes less than twenty hours. averaging thirty-nine an hour--an (possibly the most noteworthy ac- complishment of alb the "Albatross." with two Italian adventurers In her basket, rose (Aug) near Turin to a height of 3s.794 feet generously bet tering the previous height record of e37.10o Via Wireless.
 The upper air has borne mans mes- sages as well as his flying craft Wireless telegraphy. with Count von Arco's sounding Sparks" and the nek devices of the Italians Bellini and Tosi to re-enforce earlier methods has set Paris and New York in com munication, and Hawaii and the Ore- gon coast. New York and Chiacog have for the first time been talking In thIs way (May). and the Korea" steaming westward from the Golden. Gate. has kept continuously in touch with San Francisco over the hitherto unequalled distance of 4.730 miles (November.)
 The saving of fully 5000 lives. at the times of the wrecks of the Re public" (Jan.) and "Siavonia." (June,) by means of this same intangible. mysterious. winged agent of mans brain, wrote new wonder stories for all the world. Jack Binns, sticking to his post on sinking ship. and flashing his 'C. O. D." out through the fog?veil shrouded what portended on- ly direst tragedy. linked a stout heart to the marvellous ingenuity of the in- ventor. and death was once more cheated.
 When the storm wrecked liner limps
 through the mist and the swirl
 ing spume,
 push away to the outer day and tell
 of the vessels doom.
 I have come unseen with secret
 speech, I have guarded the tale
 unheard;
 I have put mine eyes on the Journeys
 end and delivered the faithful
 word.
 wireless clocks are telling time Tn present day Vienna: reVulated hour by hour by wireless waves thrown forth from a central mechanism. The Omaha Exposition, in May, was light ed by electricity brought by wireless from a power house six miles distant. Captain Rowland, of Norway's navy. has practically perfected a system for the automatic recording In print of wireless messages. Wireless commun- ications monthly growing more and more practicable between airships and the cities beneath; the Crosse II" in August talking quite satisfactorily with Frankfurt and Carlsruhe. Wire less telegraphy from moving trains hdS pCCn PAEtidAly dcHloV6u on LAG 'Limiteds" running between Buffalo and Chicago. Undsrrgrounds awinelEs Is the problem att which experts for the French government are hard at work ~77o afas ss
 And if ateiegraphy ! without wires. telephone without wires must soon ''arrive." It has not yet been demon- strated that this is n commercially profitable investment. but five long steps in that direction have been taken this year. Tn April such commu- nication was opened between Portland (Me.) and the islands in Casco Bay; while almost coincidentally. some sue cessful experiments were worked out between Paris and Melun, thirty miles distant. In June. the French cruiser Condo. 100 miles at sea. talked freely with the shore. And July brought in tests across the. Charles River. near Boston, and between Chicago and Mill waukee. both of which delivered the goods.
 w- Electrically Speaking. Wires are not yet drug In the mar ket, however, forralI this marvellous story; man Is working them harder | than ever. By the newly tried Pol l Iak- -virag" method, 10000 words an l hour can not merely be sent, but re- | corded at the receiving station; the ''Telegraphone" has come to utilize | telegraph wires for phone purposes and a Mexican, Alberto Sanchez, de- | clares he can now transmit vision al well as voice over the taut metal string at the top of a row of fish | poles;" he calls this the "Teleradiopti' | con-"
 Two recent accomplishments of in. | terest and worth, though differing from these as from each other. came when | telegraph messages were for the first time sent from London to Calcutta | without transmissious (August), 6 distance of 6,950 miles; and when tht non-magnetic survey yacht Carnegie | sailed out from her Brooklyn slip head. | ed for Hudson's Bay. This is but 6 six months trip for the >all-wood yes.
 seI, which is expected to discover al
 sorts of new and valuable things | ou l the earth's magnetic currents; her next | tourney Is to last fifteen years, ant | cover all this old earth's Seven Seas. | Ships of another ilk have come thii year in the British cruiser "Indefatiga | ble," the first funnelless vessel evei launched, and the motor-boat Robe. | ria" which its inventor, F. L. Heavens | put in the water, at Pittsburg in tho | spring-perhaps a freak" craft, ye | of powerful speed, with no keel, wit | it's engines only four feet from thu
 bow, and with the propeller under thu
 middle of the hull. As to transports | tion by land, June brought. onto tho | rails between St. Paul and White Bear | Minn., torpedo motor" of 200 h.-p.