Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1913-04-30
PROF. PATTY At
" LAST NIGHT
Lecturer Points to Scientific
Discovery and Invention
All ~ Wits. will Exceed
All the Wonders of the Past

There was a good crowd out a.
the Y. N. G. A. last night when Prof.
W. p. Patty demonstrated in the
presentation OF facts concerning
three of the wonderful things which
science and genius has presented TO
the world in recent years The lee
ture was in explanation of wireless
telegraphy. of radium and OF the mar
velous power of liquid air
He said the time was coming when
the great inventions and marvellous
productions of science which the
people now enjoy viii be the subject
of jest by future generations. VINO
will have advanced beyond the pres
ent realm Just as people now jest at
the inventions which existed in The
days OF Washington. He thought he
day was near at hand VIXEN wires for
the transmission OF messages, either
telephone or telegraphic would be
eliminated, declaring, 4 can do every
thing with wireless that can be done
by wire. and even more. He lie
clared the world had progressed by
virtue of the desire of men to annihi-
late time and space. This one
thing OF annihilating time and space
has been the whole Inspiration OF
the scientists and it is this desire
and this only that has brought about
the wonders of modern life" he said.
The time will come when people win
cross the Atlantic in p hours. The
time viii come when people viii
breakfast in New York. take lunch in
Chicago and dinner on the Pacific
coast Fifty years hence the world
vii have made " der strides in in
yention and scientific discovery than
they have done in the past so years.
Already the government is projecting
the delivery OF mail by the tube sys-
TEN. The time viii come when all
our mail will be delivered from one
end of the country 10 the other by
this system: when express packages
viii be delivered in the same man
ner and who knows but the day
will come when a passenger car car
ryinc six people will pass through
a tube across the country with light
ning-like rapid ty."
Prof. Patty spoke Of the wonders
telegraphy and liquid air as he gave
his demonstrations with these little
understood wonder. Radium, he
said, was everlasting and indestructi-
bic. 1t would he a great panacea for
germ diseases but for the fact that it
DESTROYED healthy as well as dis
eased tissue. The reproduction OF
radium has been limited because Of
the fact private capital has been dc
pended on but now the government
has taken the matter Of production
up and W Il investigate and develop
the pitch blend fields.
Prof. Patty darkened the room and
gave his audience some idea Of the
brilliancy of the Sxrticle, passing
through the audience a number OF
stereopticions containing a mite n
rad UNI, which sparkled with the bril-
liancy OF a diamond and danced be
fore the eye with lightning rapidly
Seeming restless and anzieas for re-
lease. He exhibited four tubes con-
tanning 40 Kilograms Of radium, and
asked the students to figure what
this amount of radium was worth at
s5,O0O.OOO a pound.
In his wireless demonstration he
started a miniature power plant from
the sparks OF a transmitter discon-
nected from the receiver; aslo lit
electric lights in the same manner,
and explained the mechanical con
struct;on of the wonderful Marconi
instruments.
With liquid air he produced a
temperature of 312 degrees below
zero. freezing cranbeTries as hard as
rocks and az the same time produced
a heat sufficient to weld steel, per
forming the latter feat with two steel
pens. He also boiled a teakettle on
a cake of ice and took all tine mois
ture out of a quantity of ice with the
heat of liquid air.
All his demonstrations were scien-
tific, and kept the minds Of his
in wonderland from the be-
ginning to the end.