Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-10-31

utilize all of the stupendous water power there, or
from solar tidal motor plant. electric
energy will be generated and distributed to the air
feet of the world.
ITO prevent stealing or any confusion of power the
seectve system used to-day In wireless teegra
ply will be employed. That is to say, each ship will
have motor tuned to certain number of wave VI
bratons. 1t will alone be able to receive and use
those power vibrations 1t will be regularly registered
and charged for its of power by motor
This wireless energy may also be transmitted
to trains and liners, to all the wheels OF the
great age of machinery to be-"
Just what will be done with electricity in the future
lies beyond the widest dreams Certain 1t is that its
fullest power, its widest field, is unknown and un-
dreamed of.
At Niagara to-day they are sounding the length
and depth of temperature reproducing almost the
processes of creation. Substances hard dia-
monds made-indeed, real diamonds may
tually be manufactured there and shipped away in
peck boxes-metals fused and substances united,
nitrogen is actually sucked from the air and made
marvellous and practical in results that there
is no telling what and wonderful products 1t may
be possible to manufacture and manufacturing cheaply
Already it Is possible to send tiny spark OF cleo
tricity distance of thrtyhve hundred miles, and we
have wireless telegraphy upon a commercial basis.
Within the very future, so its promoters assert
communication will be established between the ends
of the world for rate low cent word. Wire
less telephony is soon to follow, and undoubtedly many
other marvels of the spark and sounding disc.
Wireless telegraphy 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 telegraphy, or
coherer it is called is small bulb about as thick
as lead pencil and two inches long. In the centre
OF the bulb and between the ends of two silver plugs
finely powdered fragments of nickel and silver are
affected by the operation of spark thousands OF
miles away and by alternately "coherng" and deco
herring pass the electric current in dots and daShes
to teegraphic sounder.
'Now" says the expert "apply this device to naval
warfare Suppose that number of these coherers
are secreted by spies within the bags OF powder stored
will only be affected by transmtter in our hands.
How easy to send flash of electricity and blow to
atoms entire feetl wireless waves are ether
waves, you understand, not air waves. They perme-
ate steel any barrier just as readily as they go
the
81 mention this one possibility simply to prove
greater and give wider glance into the future;
that with such discoveries warfare will be made SO
hideous that it eventually altogether to
exist"
But with all its wonderful development and varied
application electricity still remains mystery. There
earth currents for instance just recently bat
burned out in the underground wire system
in New York by some tremendous current, and yet
with batteries gone the telephone and telegraph SER
vice continued without interruption
What and whence was this river of electricity?
How and where will it be found and utilized?
Again there's the new and untred field of chemis-
try The discovery of radtum completely upset some
of its basic laws is 1t possible that, working along
new lines we shall he able ransmute metals to turn
into gold and upset the present worlds monetary
standard? Such advances are by no means improb-
able. Surely the miracle or radlum means otner
miracles.
The science of medicine is still more indefinite; and
vet, together with surgery, II mas pracllcdly Deen
reyoutonized within the last score of years. The
dread contagious diseases have been mastered, the
blind made see, the deaf to hear, crpples to walk
erect vital organs formerly held exempt from the
surgeons knife successfully operated on; In
deed the field is too broad, the advances too many
to be even touched upon here
These are the truths that concern us most--True
of medicine of less vital sciences that the advance
is but Just begun. that the future is pregnant with
many more and still more wonderful discoveries.
Here is a point in evdence:--Of late the interest
of the world has been stirred with the mysteries OF
spirituaism. SO many and remarkable the
manifestations, earnest is the belief of many
entiss of note that the most sceptcal forced
believe In the existence of spirit world. Yet in the
face of this word comes from Paris, that the
apparent mysteries of spirualism are really nothing
more or less the mysteries Of the human
system about which know comparatively little.
So here is new and wonderful field fer expert
mentaton and discovery. Perhaps along these lines
we shall solve the problem of what is life?
People have ceased to marvel any more. The new
world is here, and its dazzes but does not
disturb our belief But the greater glow by far is tho
glow lust above the present day horizon the glow OF
the days to come, and are watching with eager
eyes for signs and realities. After to-day, whatf