Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-12-01
MANY WONDERS
Yet TO COME

When the first morning of the
twentieth century was ushered in
many wise people looking back along
the century that had just finished its
course and noting the wonders that
had been wrought in its unrolling
years, said: "It will never be equal
ed in all the rolling ages of the fu-
ture." That was not quite l2 years
ago, but much that was thought per-
feet then has become obsolete, and
startling discoveries have since been
made in many fields. The handling
of steam machinery was in most
crude state when the last century
was ushered in and not one man in a
million ever dreamed that it would
ever be possible to drive ships, un-
beard of then in size and power,
across the Atlantic with steam for a
moter, in five or six days.
A flash of inspiration came to
Shakespeare and he made Puck say
II will put girdle around the earth
in forty minutes" and after three
hundred years that passing dream
materialized into a fixed and marvel
GUS fact. The continents were seal
ed, the deep seas called up their
waves to fight back the messages
sent beneath them, but their work
was vain. This was followed by a
geater wonder still. Seas and con-
tinents and rivers ignored, and q
messenger with no wire to point the
way, mounted the air, and what was
whispered on one shore was carried
to the other shore on the subtle cur.
rents of the upper etherand delivered
in an instant, even as it was spoken
on the other side of the word.
Then the aeroplane came, and
7, gainst all restraining forces, mount
ed into the air. Since then one of the
problems has been TO invent motive
power strong enough and enduring
enough TO make continuous flying a
success. The Wrights seem to be al
ready In the ante-room of the temple
in which this event is stored, and the
theory upon which they seem to be
working is to catch, harness and con
troll those currents which carry wire.
less messages. But now an English
boy only twenty-five years of age has
invented motor which he says will
run continuously until the steel from
which it is made falls to pieces His
name is Stanley Hitchcock, and he
declares that there is no limit to its
power; that its principle is magnetism
and the secret of the discovery lies il
shape of the magnets which make,
them grow stronger the more they
are used. The motor revolves Ii
response to the same forces tha
make the world revolve
Does not this point to time close
by when no fuel will be needed fol
the airship motor? He says the little
motor he has built can do nearly al
the house-work required In II family
by making its light and heat, doing
the cooking, sweeping, ironing the
clothes, grinding the coffee; in fac
an automatic servant of all work.
But think a head little: Wher
(his machine is enlarged and improv
ed, what object will there be in con
Serving coal measured? All that will
Rbe needed will be to set the magnet,
and they will smelt the iron, conver
1t into steel and supply the power t.
mould the steel into any desired
form. Then the business of the Goa
dealer will be dispensed with and 81
will be that of the ice cream man A
corner on gasoline will be worthless
for all the power will come, down OF
the sanbeams brought from tn,
source Of all power.
Then all but food animals will dis
appear from the earth; there will b,
mo- occasion for forest reserves, TO