The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-17
The 34 Greatest Discoveries
 And Achievements of the Century

disease were discovered by pr. Joseph | Lister, of Edinburgh. in 1s7s The mortality in serious surgical opera tions has been reduced from so to barely Is per cent. which fact is re- garded as largely duo to the use of the | protective antiseptics now always us- ed.
 Ix--Wire1ess Telegraph.
 Prof c. A. Stefnheii. of Munich gave 1 the world the first clear anticipation | of wireless telegraphy in 1S40. but | nothing practical resulted until Shoe | maker, the inventor, and Marconi | about 1898, made the wireless" q | solid and substantial success. It saw ed hundreds of lives in a recent steam | ship collision. Messages are now transmitted 2,5o0 miles.
 x--Phonesraph.
 The first phonograph was patented on June l3. 1868. but it was not until Thomas A. Edison announced his | patent in 1877 that the world may be said to have possessed a real phono- graph. The modern instructments are so excellent as to preserve almost per- fectly the voices of the greatest sing CTS.
 xI--Trelley Car. In 1881 an, electric tramway one and Ia half miles long was built in Lich- | tsrfelde (Berlin.) The first trolley car | line operated with euccess in America | was built in Richmond. Va. by Lieut. | Sprague, in 1887. There is no con- siderable city in the world today with | out itsl electric traction service xII--Eraetioa Match. John Walker, of tstockton-en- Tees. was the man who Aehievsd n is2ss or !. friction match. Up to that time | the most primitive methods of mak- ling fire--the flint and steel and tho | in use. The mosti |f19hly developed form of the modern | match is the safety match, made in Sweden and Norway.
 xIIf--FIying Machlne.
 The first to demonstrate the practi- cability of navigating the air with heavier -than-air machine were the wright brothers. of Dayton. Ohio. They made their first great achieve ment in 1908. Glenn Curtiss holds speed record of forty-nine miles an hour, Bleriot the distance record of i40 miles ana the Wrights the height | record, TOO feet.
 xTv--lsound the World Record. I
 Two New York schoolboys- Waiter Brown and John Munich, under the patronage of The New York American. made a new score for circling the l
  pIeted the trip in fprty-one days and | eight hours--a little more than half | the time predicted by Jules Verne in his famous book. Around the World in Eighty Days"
 xv--fraur-day Ocean Liner The steamship Lusitania. on its. trip ending in this port Sept last made the course from Daunt's Rock to the Ambrose Channel lightship in four days eleven hours and forty-two mii- utes at an average of 25.S5 knots an hour. In the early years of the cen- tury 1t took thirty days to cross the Atlantic. | xvI-Telephone. | To Alexander Graham Bell belongs the credit of the invention of the first practical telephone, in 1875. It l was at first considered a toy. Now more than $l,00o. 100000 are invested In its indispensable use. It is regard ed as having reached perfection in it's present form. but experimets with the wireless telephone are promising. | XvH--Locomotive. Tn 1874 George Stephenson's locomo- tive was run in England at six miles | an hour. The modern engines of highest development have speed of ninety-nine miles an hour. There are 5S. .3Oi locomotives now operated in the United States over 24.ss2 miles of | track. Peter Cooper built the first locomotive in America in 1880. l xvUI-@Atlantie Gable. q
 To Cyrus W. Field belongs the main honor of laying the first ocean cable | He conceived the idea in 1857. cable was laid in 1858 and few messages sent. but 1t was not until 1898 that the permanent success was gained and the practicability. of marin teleeraphy assured. Cables now un- derlie all the seven seas.
 xIv-Harvester.
 Henry Ogle. of England. conceived lthe key ideo of the modern moving machine in 1922. The machines of to- aaS are simply improvements on logle's idea. A single steam reaper on Ithe Dakota wheat farms does the work l of eighty men with far grtater dis hatch and efficiency than men could effect.
 | xX-R0tary Press.
 The first cylinder press was patent ed in Germany in 1911 by Frederick Ronig. The rotary press, in prNni- five form was patented by Nicholson in 1 f7so. but the walter press invented by H McDonald and Calveriey (lS62-63) vas a great practical advance. The J heat modern machines print paste and fold so.O00 papers an hour.
 lr xxE--EIeetric Motor.
 l Tn 1887 Robert Davidson experiment. ed Aon the Edinburgh and Glasgow Raslroad with car run by. an eitctro- | r,farnetic engine supplied by gall vanic battery. siemens. in Berlin. con- stFuctedsa car that. ran seven miles an hour with a dynamo. The present hIghast mower electric locomotives lhaya d speed of ninety-two miles an hour.
 xxIE--submsrtnes.
 Although a primitive submarine Ihoat was built by a Dutchman named prebeil in I771. and Robert Fulton ex-
 nerirnented with a similar boat en Essasa~a tha enectiva war submarine is