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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 230, 22 September 1908, Page 4

DAY DREAMS OF SCIENCE

DiSCOYEKIES THAT WILL KEVOLI TIOXLSE EXISTENCE.

The day dreams of to-day are the realities of to-morrow (observes a writer in an English contemporary). Tie mewl vivid imagination of a' century ago tonal hardly have created in i-'s most- cxtr.ivagiin.t moinenls lliuse wondcri'iil mechanical appliances, the telephone, the telegraph, and the inolof-e.il, which are in daily use among us nowadays. It seems likely, if we may believe tlie leaders in modern science, that the revolutions to be cll'eclcd during tlii' next (biade or so will surpass in magnitude even those of the Inst two generations.

There, is, for instance, a professor in 'fans who has a machine designed to make you see what is going on in London or New York as easily as looking into a mirror. Or perhaps you-would like to send your photograph from here to Australia iir a very great hurry, so that it would reach there to-morrow, in fact. A Danish inventor, famous f'Ji .his acliievonients with liipiid air, lias just completed an apparatus which, l.e declares, lias solved the problem of this photographic rapid transit by wireless me I hods.

You place a copy of your photograph on the cylinder of this machine. The apparatus is slaWed, and. in a- few .minute-, a perfect reproduction, of the photograph is in the hands of (he receiving operator wherever ;he picture was t.i be transmitted. More wonderful still is the new method of setting type by wireless-another invention by the same professor. Under the present sVstom the operator of a typesetting machine sits at a ke,biiard arranged like that of a typewriter and keeps ins nimble lingers going as fast as he can. The new method of sidling type by wireless provides for an equally successful and speedy opera - tion of tho machine, no matter whether the. operator is on the s pot or Will miles away.

To turn to a topic somewhat diU'erent, how would you like to stop growing older, and begin to grow young aga.n instead? A celebrated h'rench ' experi mentor has already convinced physicimall over the vorld that the most valuable agency for keeping you young is to keep your arteries young. To do this he will put vou in his cage or ;u the olniir and apply a. high freipien-y current of electricity carrying vibration, as -high as ](«l,()(li)j)(l(l. 'The high <nipii'iicy current, as it is called, enables a patient to receive without inconvenience a vollage which otherwise applied would lie-fatal.

Tlic medical journals have been calling attention recently to II"' new ''artiiicial respiration machine." Kiuip'.y told, this liUli' contrivance im-cli-.uiU-jill\-puts oxygen, the breath of life, inlo inert lungs. In other words, it will under certain cimililions restore life lo an sHiiniiil which has been pronounced dead. The value of such an appliance in cas-s of suspended animation, caused by drowning. l>y asphyxiation, or l>y coma resultant upon typhoid fever and otli'i' diseases, cannot be over-estimated. A rabbit upon which experiments were made was restored to lif-o sixteen times after liring put, to death sixteen times by morphine and ether, 'Another representative of modern science claims to have discovered .1 method of causing electric sleep, which is to replace chloroform ami other anaesthetics in surgical operations. Tie patient is .practically electrocuted for the time being. For a human being, a current of 35 volts is applied intermittently in its full strength for -minute fractions of a second.

Deports have been published from time to time during the last year or so of ml tempi* made by medical investigators to weigh and to photograph the depart ing souls of the dead and dying. A certain measure of success has been claimed in -ome instances, lint very lil.'le of material value to science has resulted. The latest. ami probably the most interesting of all experiments of this nature have come from a lady doctor in America. She asserted a lew weeks au'o that she had seen two souls as tiicy left, the bodies or an infant of one month and a man of (io years, whom -be attended at the time of their respective deaths. A soul, according (n her view, is composed of a vaporous blue substance, which appears like cigar smoke. It rises from the liodv at death in a clearlv defined shnpe. the shape liein-i that, of the bode at death. ' It goes through tiewall of a room as easily as cigar snioire pa-scs .through a lace curtain. The wireless Atlantic liner to wlib-li (he President of the Iron and St"c! Institute called attention in a nrn; address. is destined, according lo lii',l. to take the place of the si. ■unship, jusl a< siirclv as the motor-ear is displacing (he horse-drawn vehicle, lie deelafd that a few years hence, with little or no macliiueiv aboard, ami sen reel v an\ crew, ships will be sped'on their vovag-'s bv eleelricilv generated at Niagara I'all- and transmitted wireless!v over Hie Atlantic. This/he added, sounded like a strange forecast, but it was no more incredible than other recent scie.t-' tilic happenings. The world moved en. he said, in a succession of dreams and their fnllilment. Another great engineer, who li-is been idenlilicil with inanv of the largest ocean steamships launched in the past few years predicts that (wentv-livo vea.-s fi-or.i now it will be possible lo cross the ocean at. the rale of -10 miles an hour in a steamship 1200 ft. lout'. 21 ft. 'leep. and with a breadth of 12.5 ft, lie says of (he great ocean grevhounds of the future:- There will be (ill boiler,, with 100,001) feet of healing surface, and 12 smoke-slacks. A special .feature ol the general management will be extra large pumping power, with boilers and b"»ips placed well above the load waterline. I suppose (hat certain compailnienls containing 2500 tons shall be kepi full of water, so I hat in the event of grounding fin's,, compartments could'be emptied in 12 ininuies which would in nio-l eases of grounding el le I lie i-li'p t" llonl oil'.',,s -2.5011 tons would lept'cseiil cue foot draught of water.

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