A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 931, 11 June 1878, Page 2

A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.

I am almost afraid to tax your credulity by mentioning Mr Edinson's very latest .discovery ; jet there is quite as little doubt of its truth as there is r of the phonograph. The discovery was detailed soroeyplmt minutely as to results' hf

the 'New York^;-.bttliS« the patent rightn have not been lolly secured, a description of the machioe is withheld. It is neither mjre nor I<j« thaji the making of food, .wh«thpr animal or vegetable, out of the three simple elements of earth, air, and water. In the process of his , scientific research the thought struck Edinson that analytical chemistry had being jpnrsued to the neglect of synthetical chemistry, and he put the question trf himself : ■.. Can't I anticipate the slow process of nature, and produce food for man m the laboratory of science without depending wholly updn its manufactory m the laboratory of nature.' Acting upon this thought, he set to work, and "the result is a machine which he thinks can be ijiade' with forty, variationsj^that is, to produce forty different, kinds of food. Ijle has so far succeeded m making about twenty varieties of flesh, fowl, cereals, vegetables, fruit, coffee, tea, wine, &c. j and on actuar test the only difference between the chemically prS&uced' beef, mutfcou, and game from that of ,tho living 1 animals, is an absence of fibre. This may appear astounding to your readers, but a moments ( reflection will , show that however greatly 'more important the economic.resulta of the food creator mp-y be then .those .of the phonography its; -^realisation by a competent chemist is by no means so marvellous' *' as the " mechanical' contrivance , fpi ; 1 roprpd tiding'; variety ;of , sound, with unvarying fidelity • The process is going, on perpetually, according to unvarying natural laws. The only notice of this invention has ' be^O: m the .' Graphic.'. . It is a scientific baby newly born, but bigger than its father. Should it prove' what its inventor claims for it, it will solve the problem of poverty, revolutionise social conditions, and put an end to the martyrdom of man. Earaday stopped on the edge of this discovery, which ( was foreshadowed by Bacon with the prophetic intuition, of genius.^* Otac;o Times' American Corrsspondent.