Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-02-04
MAY STARTLE
The WORLD
Thomas A. Edison Looks for
Nine New Inventions.
AND THEY MAY OPEN THE
WAY FOR HUNDREDS MORE
Wizard Enumerates Adapta-
ton of Power and Discov-
cries in Science Which
Man Has Been Search
ing for Years.

ing for Years.
Thomas A. Edison recently gave ex-
preston to the opinion that nine new
inventions are about to be announced
which will BIZ as startling and as "re-
evolutionary" as any that have preced-
ed them. He expects that thew will
open wide door for hundreds more
applications Of mechanical power
which will greatly benefit civilization.
He says no one now can measure the
advancement which these inventions
will bring He enumerates them as
follows:
First-Within the next twenty or
thirty years and it will start within
the next two or three years concrete
architecture will take enormous strides
forward The art of moulding con-
crete will be reducted to a science of
perfection and, what is equally impor-
tant, of cheapness. There will rise up
large number of gifted architects
and through their efforts cities and
towns will spring up in this country
besides which Turner'S picture of an
cient Rome and Carthage will pale in
to nothingness and the buildings of
the Columbia exhibition 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
beautiful than the rich now aspire to,
and the man earning 81. 80 day, with
family to support, will be better
housed than the man of today who is
earning $40.
Second-Moving picture machines
will be SO perfect that the characters
will not only move, but will speak,
and all the accessories and effects of
the stage will be faithfully reproduced
on the living picture stage. This, OF
course, will not be done on as well as
on the regular stage, but its standard
will approach very near to that, and
the fact that such enter tainments will
be furnished for five 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 the evening, and the death knell
of the saloon will be sounded.
Third-In perhaps fifteen or twenty
years-depending on the financial con-
dition of the Countrywide locomotive
will pass altogether out of use, and all
our main trunk railways will be oper-
ated by electricity.
, Fourtb--A new fertilizer will spring
into existence, containing large per-
centage of nitrogen. This will be
drawn from the air by electricity, and
: will be used to increase the arability
. of the land. Even now this is done to
. large extent in Sweden.
Fifth--All our water power will be
utilized by electricity to an extent
now almost unthought of, and will be
, used with great advantage both indus
|, trially and for railroads.
, Sixth-A successful aerial naviga-
4 ton will be neutrality-suspicious. fol
, mails-and will achieve a sound, prac
3 teal working basis.
l Seventh-We shall be able to protect
, ourselves against environment by the
use of serums and things of that sor
so that the general state of health viii
. improve and the average span of lif'
y will increase by large percentage
The grand fight which is being made
= against tuberculosis and cancer will
> reach successful elimination, ant
those diseases will be entirely master
. ed
Eighth-We will realize the possibil
= = titles of our coal supplies better ant
. will learn how to utilize them so tina
80 per cent. of the efficiency will no
= be thrown away, as it is today.
= !, Finally, let it be said, hardly an
piece of machinery now manufactured
is more than 10 per cent. perfect. A
: the years go on this will be improve
. upon tremendously; more automati
machinery will be devised and article
Ie of comfort and luxury will be proiuC
Z, ed in enormous numbers at such sma
3 cost that all classes will be able to Ell
y JOY tie benefits of them.
Thee are some of the invention
which the world j. awaiting which
is sure of seeing realized. just no.
they will be realized is what tine il
-, ventoTs are working now to determine