Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-03

by evilly disposed individuals The public might at
first look upon the perfection OF such invention
calamity. Wesay that all inv entions assist the criminal
in his work Today the safe burglar despises the Of
dynamite, turning electrical contrivances to the
lock from safe 1t is fortunate for the world, there
fore, that ninety per cent OF its people good and
that only ten per cvly disposed: otherwise all
invention might be turned more greatly to evil than
good"
As with the ships of the sea- so also the gigantic
freight ships of the aerial highways will be controlled
lifted in air. sent whizzng along at two hundred miles
the through express and mail possibly three or four
hundred miles-an hour lowered to scheduled landing
places route the progress OF the discharge and load
ing being visible to the operator and again raised and
ut to flight by the telautomatic control dispatcher
the headquarters of the line. The possibilities of the
part crewess warsfps of the may play by dropping
earth-rending bombs upon the cities of the enemy is
obvious.
WITH wireless propelled passenger air carriers hay
w ing decks closed or protected against the stran-
Cling lung drowning rush through the air. travelling three
four hundred miles hour through routes in high
attitudes may have six o'clock dinner in New York
and breakfast next morning in San Francisco London
or Paris or have luncheon in San Francisco and tea
next day in Canton or Toxic.
The airship of Tesas invention will be neither aero
plane dirigible, will it have wings gasbags
propeller blades All these things, he says impos-
sibe in the construction of commercially practicable
airship. The aeroplane he classes than an
amusing toy, vehicle for exhibition by the venture
sportsman; will it be anything more be-
in its essential principles it has iremediable flaws
that absolutely fatal to commercial success Tesas
airsp will be proportonaely as substantial as sanch
and dependable, and altogether as arworthy as the
steamship of today is seaworthy. 1t will maintain
steady even keel and will not be in the least affected by
air currents any sort of weather conditions.
The size of these ships of the air may be limited only
by the of accommodations provided for their land
ing. Or they may be made small enough, being easily
and simply handled, that the school girl and boy may
ride them to and from school, and greater safety than
walking in the city streets. The single double or
triple passenger of Professor Tesla type will be
popular, too, for individual and independent
Sit either for business pleasure than was the bicycle
in its heyday the gasolene automobile its best
Then the city of the future may go and come
between business and residence his wireless aerocar
and he may 60 many miles farther aied, into the ur-
crowded hills and valleys and and lake shore, to
make his home.
HOWEVER, before the general public is fully educated
II to the popular of aerial navigation as common
utility wireless power will have been generally if not
universally, applied to the railroads. 1t is very prob
able in fact aside from the industries and
merce, that wireless power will find its first application
to rail traffic. 1t will be ideal of power,
and the resulting advantages and economies will be-
more truly than tritely, too numerous to mention
anything less than a volume.
Millions of tons of coal will be saved that are now
consumed in hauling fuel to coang points. The of
hydroelectric power will the coal
The ponderous, track wearing steam locomotive will be
abandoned to the scrapheap The smoke and SCOT and
CRIME of travel will be eliminated Direct wireless con-
necon with the motors under each will discard the
deadly third rail and the hundred ton electric engine
Wireless controlled safety devices will make collision
impossible, and the wireless trains will provide every
comfort and electrical convenience of the latest thing in
hotels.
The maximum of speed will be determined bv the
capacity of the track withstand strain And wireless
power will make it cheaper to cut through mountains,
I'LL valleys and bridge canons than to operate on curves
and grades. With these abolished and with roadbeds
laid approximate levels, straightaway the crow
flies for hundreds of miles and with Teslas gyroscopc
mechanism to provide stability and prevent lateral i'm