Ted Leinhart
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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generally in secret to obtain this gigantic result beside which the philosopher's stone was but a bauble edison has worked on it and confidently predicts that the discovery will come he asserts that he is no longer troubling himself about it but he has a very well-equipped chemical laboratory in which nowadays he spends most of his time and if he happens upon this secret we have no idea that he will let it pass by unnoticed
When we shall have made this eternal saving in our fuel supply, the Atlantic steamships will need only a snug little coal bin for 250 tons of coal instead of one for 2,500 tons.
There will be no more forced draughts and grimy consumptive stokers, and the five-day record will be an uninteresting reminiscence.
The great English shipbuilders can already construct a vessel to go forty knots an hour.
If only she could burn two thousand tons of coal a day, then she will only have to burn two hundred.
Then it will take only one twentieth of an ounce of coal to carry a ton one mile.
Nor is it only the sanguine dream of inventors, this magnificent discovery,
so cool-headed a business man as mr johnson whom i have been quoting from before believes that we shall certainly have the problem solved early in the next century it will he adds make short work of machinery now run by electricity the greatest future of electricity he adds is in its quality of a power agent light and heat it will give but power is the grand field for its employment
all that is required is cheap production the means of utilizing it effectively and economically are even now more perfect than in the case of the steam-engine or the horse
niagara in harness while our industrious alchemists search for the great secret we are doing the best in our power to make up for the inefficiency of steam by utilizing the energy of streams in the falls of niagara there are about three million horse-power hitherto wasted but now a portion of this monster force is in the traces
one hundred thousand horse powers caught by giant turbines is transformed into electricity on the spot and then sent over wires to distant points to give light and turn wheels the silent invisible power is to be taken to the city of buffalo or even farther
and as a local result that town is already looking forward to a population of one million it helps us to realize our gain on nature when we think that even this bit stolen from niagara only one three hundredth of her might is equivalent to the continuous work night and day of six hundred thousand men
the question at once arises why we do not utilize all the niagara power and run every piece of machinery in new york city with it perhaps some day we may but at present there is a practical limit to the long-distance transmission of power which puts this feat out to question at great distances there is too much resistance to be overcome to make it commercially efficient
and the personal equation of the men who have the machinery in charge must always be taken into account said mr edison no machinery can be much beyond the conception of the men who run it that is a point seldom thought of but ever present in the consideration of these new problems
we may travel one hundred fifty miles per hour it is now but a question of time when the mantle of the steam locomotive will fall on the electric car the latter has made the first advances towards supplanting steam in such work as is required in the long b and o tunnel under the city of baltimore
where whole trains even freight trains with their locomotives attached are hauled six or seven miles by powerful electric motors the engineers studying the practical details of electrical locomotion are still uncertain as to whether we shall have a separate locomotive drawing the future train or whether each car will be equipped with its own motor
the possible speed is to be limited only by the problems of the cohesion of steel in the rails and engines i asked mr edison what in his opinion was the practical speed limit on the horizon of electrical locomotion and he answered perhaps one hundred fifty miles an hour he made at menlo park one of the first important experiments in electrical railways
exhibiting one in eighteen eighty two that carried cars forty miles per hour but before we come to moving heavy trains by electricity to which there are serious though not insuperable obstacles he believes that we shall shoot our mail through the country by some electrical device of telfridge construction possibly
the social aspects of city railways but perhaps the most far-reaching results of the introduction of electrical transportation will be seen in our city and suburban railways that was after all but a feeble bit of philosophy which said time is money
for when the problems of our congested centres of population are considered time is green fields and running brooks fresh air and cream and butter and eggs it is life and health and happiness for the ill-fed ill-housed untaught class which our social and industrial systems constrain to exist in city tenement houses
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