The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-12
POWER TRANSMISSION
BY WIRELESS 4 FACT
MANY NOTABLE DEVICES


Ozonizers, steriliscrs OF Water, Air
Food and Clothing. Accident Pro.
venters and Many Other New Uses
Found.
Baltimore, Sept. 1.-THE progress
OF electricity and forecasting its fu-
tyre. indicates some amazing new
issues to which electricity Is to be put
Tesla briefly sketches the history OF
electricity from its discovery by the
ancieAts down to the wireless achieve
ments OF the present day. Moses, so
Telsa declares, was undoubtedly a
practical and skilled electrician. and
he thinks It may be plausibly as
sumed that the vestai fires of the
Romans were electrical. and yet there
was no progress made in the practical
uses OF electricity from early times
until recent years.
The telegraph. telephone. pnono-
graph and incandescent lamp. induc-
ton motor. oscillatory transformer
Roentgen ray, radium. wireless and
numerous other revolutionary ad-
vances which have been made within
the last century may suggest the
thought that nothing Is left to be done
in electricity. Telsa says all this is as
nothing as compared with what the
future has in store. and which. in
brief. may be outlined from his fore
cast. as follows: Hundreds OF mil
lions OF dollars may be saved annually
by comprehensive electrical plan for
the mining, handling. transportation,
storage and use of coal, and this APP
plies also to natural gas and mineral
oil.
Passing by the possibilities OF cleo
tr1cal Improvements in the processes
OF manufacturing steel, IL Is pointed
out that not less than 1000. 900 horse
power could be developed annually in
electrical generators. with new. ef-
ficient. extremely cheap and simple
thermo dynamic transformers. by
utilizing the heat of the gases evolved
In the manufacture Of coke for blast
or only In part and inefficiently en-
ployed. Electrical energy could be
advAntageousiy used in the fixation OF
atmospheric nitrogen and production
Of fertilizers, for which there rs an
unlimited demand The Harvesting OF
waterfalls IL the most economical
method known for developing power.
So far. about 100000 horse power
have been developed in this country.
This Is equal to the mechanical per-
formance of 100000 men AL
though there are limitations TO water
power development at present. the
time Is very near when the precipi-
tation OF the moisture OF the atmos-
phere will be under control. and then
II will he possible to draw unlimited
quantities OF water from the oceans.
develop any desired amount of energy,
and completely transform the globe
by irrigation and intensive farming.
Wireless Trnnsmission.
The wireless transmission OF power
is now an accomplished fact.
In the departments Of electric light
and power an electrical Ice machine,
economical and e4icient, to provide
refrigeration for every household. Is
an important new appliance, ready TO
be introduced.
A vast and absolutely untouched
field il the use OF electricity for the
propulsion OF ships An electrical
company has just equipped a large
vessel with highspeed turbines and
electric motors. and has achieved a
signal success.
There will be electrical instruments
for preventing collisions. and fogs will
be dispersed by electric force and
powerful and penetrative rays. With
in the next few years wireless plants
will probably he Installed fer the pur-
pose OF Illuminating the oceans
The beneficial effects OF electricity
OF high tension have been unmistak-
ably esta blished. and q revolution will
be brought about through the extern
sive adoption of agricultural cleo
trical apparatus. The safeguarding OF
forests against fires, the destruction
of microbes, insects and rodents will
in due course, be accomplished by
electrical means
BY the development of electrical In
struments II will be possible to flash
any image formed In thought on a
screen and render 1t visible at any
place desired.
In telegraphy and telephony new
inventions will dispense with expen-
sive constructions. and will also enor-
mously extend the wireless transmits
sion of intelligence in all It's depart
ments. A number OF improvements
of much promise have been made In
the art OF telegraping or teiphoning
pictures, and 1t Is expected that COM
plete success will soon be achieved.
Aonther valuable novelty will be q
typewriter electrically operated by the
human voice. thus doing away with
the operator and saving much time
and labor in ofhces.
Notable improvements.
Many municipal improvements
based on the use of electricity are
about to be introduced. We are TO
have everywhere smoke annihiiators.
dust absorbers. oxonixera. sterilixers
of water. air, food and clothing, and
accident preventera on streets. ele-
waited roads and In subways 1t will
become next to impossible to contract
disease germs or get hurt in the CITY,
and country folk win 30 to town to
rest and get we'll.
In the way OF devices and imple-
ments OF warefare. a new electric gun
will soon be brought out. Dirigibles
and aeroplanes will be equipped with
small electric generators OF high ten
sion from which the deadly currents