Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02

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full experiments were worked out between
Fsris 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 Milwaukee. both Of which delivered
the goods"
Wires are not yet a drug in the market,
however. for all this marvellous story; man
is working them harder than ever. BY the
newly tried 'Pollak Virag' method, 10000
words an hour cannot merely be sent but
recorded at the receiving station; the "tele-
graphone' has come to utilize telegraph
wires for phone purposes; and a Mexican,
Alberto Sanchez, declares he can now
transmit vision as we'll as voice over the
taut metal string at the top Of a row Of
fish poles" he calls this the "Teleradiop-
ticon."
Two recent accomplishments, OF interest
and worth. though differing from these as
from each other, came when telegraph mes
sages were for the first time sent from
London to Calcutta without re-transmisslou
August. q distance of $500 miles: and
when the non-maguetic survey yacht Car
uegie sailed out from its Brooklyn slip
headed for Hudson bay. This is but u six
months Trip IOf the dll-WOOu vessel NnlCn
is expected to discover all sorts of new and
valuable things about the carth's magnetic
currents. Its next journey is to last fiji
teen years and cover all this old earth's
seven seas.
Transportation on Land.
As to transportation by land, June
brought onto the rails between st. Paul
and White Bear. Mimi, a torpedo mo-
tor of 91O- hnrea-nnuyar r,@atf,o n.-,1Iol
and capable Of Keeling off seventy-five miles
an hour; October saw highly successful
tests of the first turbine locomotive made
for English use, and November witnessed
the marvellous performance, in England
again, Of the gyroscope car patented by
Louis Brennan. Think Of It! A carriage
forty feet long and thirteen high, weigh
ing twenty-five tons, mounted on a single
rail, and running freely about all sorts of
curves and angles. 1t carries forty passen-
gers with safety as complete and vibration
far less than can the ordinary coach, and
it's present speed of fifty miles an hour,
it is said, may be increased threefoId.
The completion Of Austria's Tauern rail
way crowns a genuine work of brains-plus-
skill. Here was a line less than forty
miles long h%itching up Gastein and Spittal
$3.50 HAaANoE' AAb nv . ~ Ia
taken some S62, 5000 to build it and eleven
years labor; the tunneling alone demanded
ninety months. Now it is proposed to
pierce the barrier, conquered by Hannibal
2,lOO years ago., and by Mr.. Bonaparte Of
Corsica only a century back, not only at
the Jungfraujoch, but through Mount
Blanc himself. The much-talked-of line
through the Andes will be in running order
before anther spring has come and gone.
1t is the American engineer. however,
who, in his tunneling business, has made
his mark highest and clearest. All worlds
records in this sort have been better by
the workers in the bores OF the Chicago,
Milwaukee & Puget Sound road, under the
Bitter Root hills in Idaho and Montana.
the drills began in November, 1906, and the
S,751 feet, just completed, showed a variant
of only one three-hunrdedth of an inch off
the true floor alignment. The Simplon tun-
mel is only Col feet in length and the st.
Gothard but 456.
And what of the McAdoo tubes bur
rowing under the river between New York
and Jersey City? The first Pennsylvania
railroad train ran through IN November
and the ~trolleys had been buzzlng there
five months before that. The steel pipes
that bind the two states IN amity give the
train-sick traveller a cool plunge down a
long, dark, submarine cave that might be
fitted up with stalactltes and staIagmites.
Then, almost GREATNESS, he is discharged
into an underground city Of green, fun Of
miniature stores, twinkling with electric
bulbs.