The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1913-05-26

Their owners haven't thought sc
quickly as the others. All saw the
horse under the wire at the same
time. some perceived the arrival oil
The event with their eyes. brains and
muscles more quickly than others.
Again-a piece of ice or hot wire
/ IS touched to a hand without the
owner seeing it approach The hand
naturally jerks away in surpr sc or
pain or alarm
The interval between the touch
and the perception of ii and reaction.
will differ with different people-wiil
differ with the same people with
different stimuli, and will differ with
the same people with the same stimu-
H. if the intensity of these stimuli
differ.
After having shown that real speed
is the property only of forces of ma
lure and physical phenomena. and
properly. let us hope. humbled the
pride of the speed king" let us do
full justice to mans conquest of
space
The automobile has Travelled a mile
in the reasonable interval of 273
seconds This is at the lively pace Of
1873 miles an hour. speed at which
no locomotive has yet managed to
travel on an American railway. ex-
cept. perhaps. for a short uutimed
and unofficial stretch.
But il must not be imagined that
because Oldfield can drive an auto
mobile at such rate for a mile
on a beach, the locomotive is out
classed Oldfield drove racer
made to go fast and which couldn't
so slow, and which was good for
nothing but attaining great speed
The locomotive has some speed
records of is own. made in the
course of business. and has yet to be
beaten by anything used for business
purposes.
TIL Empire State Express made
112ta miles an hour-a mile in @2f
seconds. The PENNSYLVANIA road.
from Landover to Anacosta, dis
tanee of 81 miles, has been covered
in three minutes flat, 102 miles per
hour. a feat totally eclipsed by
train running between Fleming TO
Jacksonville. which did : miles in
go. an even 120 miles per hour
In long runs. of course, there is
no hing to compete with the train
for speed. the New York Chicago
cighteen-hour train. for instance.
which was a little 100 fast for prac-
teal purposes, but which nevcrthe-
less, managed to maintain an aver
age of G2.54 miles per hour, doing
the 965 miles in Il hours and 43
minutes.
1t is 525 miles from Chicago to
Buffalo. The run has been made in I
hours and 30 minutes, which is 69G9
miles per hour for the distance,
truly wonderful record.
New York to Buffalo is 1867
miles. With two stops and twenty
eight slow ups, a train has managed
TO cover the distance in hours Il
minutes, or at an average speed
of Gt.33 miles per hour.
This is better than they do abroad
although there are some foreign
trains which are fast. For instance.
the distance from Paris 70 ST. Queu-
tin is 962a miles. The run has been
made in 90 minutes. or speed of
60 miles per hour. The famous
English Caledonan. from London TO
Edinburgh, makes the 400 miles IN
I hours SO minutes, at speed of
524 miles an hour
Sit back and dream of what trans
portation may be when some twenty
fifth century genius shows us how
to harness our cars to shaft of
light. or even to loud noise, and
transport us from New York to San
Francisco in a time that would
make the Hartman special, which
crossed from Oakland to New York
in II hours and 81 minutes. at a
mean speed of nearly AZ miles an
hour, look like the wagon service
that took 90 days from Pittsburg
to Philadelphia Railroad Mans
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