Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-06-11
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES
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and united United States than we're
the early colonies on the eastern
coast. Similarly the application OF
steam to ships has brought the
whole world into contact and close
intercourse of peoples and pro-
ducts. Steam has revolutionized
conditions by transportation; it has
reyolutioniZed, or rather ii has ere
ated, modern manufacturing by
power-driven factories.
Man has been characterized as
the tool-using animal. AT first his
tools were clubs and hammers and
sharp stones and chisels and saws,
all operated by hand. Their size
and capacity was limited by human
muscle. Then came the engine and
instead of little hand tools there
were great machines driven by
power a thousand or a hundred
thousand times that of man.
times greater than that of a man.
could be woven, and shoes could be
made, and locomotives and reapers
could be constructed and products
which were once expensive or i'm
possible to produce have become
cheap and abundant. The new ep-
och in human history and the great
changes found in modern civiliza-
ton have been brought about
directly and indirectly by the use
of power
Electricity plays an important
part in the power epoch. Once the
engine was harnessed to it's work by
shafting and belts. Now the engine
drives the electric generator and
wires carry the current to distant
motors. Water power, once unavail-
able, becomes a precious source of
power, and not merely for mechan-
ical purposes, but for light and heat.
Electricity gives a new impetus to
the production and the uses of
power. 1t enters every industry. 1t
inaugurates new methods and eff
fects new economies, whether in
driving machinery, in making steel
in mining ore, in raising crops, in
operating street cars or in adding
conyenlences and comforts to the
home. IIXn
The effects of the forces which
have been active during the power
epoch may be found in statistics
and census reports. 1t is said that
England favored the South during
the Civil war as she feared the riv-
airy of the manufacturing interests
of the North. After nearly 90
years of independence we had at
tanned a world prominence in in
dustry. But in the next 16 years
the value of our manufactured pro-
ducts doubled; and in the next 16
years it doubled again; and it dou-
Dled twice more in succeeding per-
lods. The amount of coal and iron
mined have doubled in about 10
years. The total amount of cleo
trio power used doubles in five
years, while the horsepower of mo-
tors used doubles in three years.
The young man of 20 has already
covered period OF development
which transcends that of all prior
time. Railways, steamships, manu-
featuring, mining, electric service
have doubled or quadrupled or
more. The universal telephone If
today makes that of 20 years ago
seem trivial. A new kind of power
mas opened new fields. The gaso-
me engine brings flying machine,
automobile and motor boat. Wire
less has ceased to be wonder.
In this period have come the
trusts the industrial aggregations.
based upon power for manufacture
ing purposes, railways for trans
portation and telegraph and tele-
phone for eliminating distance as an
obstruction to unified control and
management. The whole structure
OF corporate industry and of bust
ness, and the functions of govern
ment have b cen transformed nv
steam and electricity.
Steam and electricity have been
developed and applied by the engin-
eer. His effort and his success in
controlling and directing the forces
OF nature for the use of man have
produced the physical basis. the on
Grating machinery which has placed
human existence upon a new plane
have sketched the part that the
engineer has played in bringing
ABOUT present conditions-condi-
lions which will not remain fixed
out VIII continue their advance un-
less some human catastrophe pre-