Ted Leinhart
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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when the fathers of such families as we now see in mulberry and cherry streets can go every night to their country homes thirty miles away from work in half as many minutes for five cents then we shall be well on our way to a signal solution of the ugliest questions of the day
If electrical city railways will eventually help to emancipate the workmen and stab anarchy under the fifth rib, they will also much more directly be doing a good deed in emancipating the street-car horse than which there is no more ill-used or degraded creature, judged by his possibilities, in the animal or vegetable kingdom, and in doing so they will help to clean our streets and purify the heavily taxed atmosphere of great cities.
a profession for the masses the birth of the beneficent science has brought with it an entirely new profession and as is well and fitting a profession which less than any of its older brethren is isolated by laws of caste or need of money
it has opened an honorable lucrative occupation to the masses and it has aided in the century's movement toward presenting in our college courses the widest opportunities for practical and technical instruction as opposed to the old-time classical system never before in the history of the world have boys with dexterous hands and inquiring logical brains had such a chance as now lies before them
and not only boys a social good of the highest importance has come in the field that certain delicate operations in electrical manufacture have given to women wage-earners in the edison manufactories alone thousands of girls are using their skilful fingers in finely gauged judgment
to finish the sapphire portions of the phonograph to make and test the thread-like bamboo filaments of the incandescent light they are more to be relied on than boys in the nice manipulation of these and other frail portions of the machinery an opportunity for our economists
of vast economic and social significance will be the opportunity that our new systems of transportation communication and lighting will offer to correct any mistakes that we may have made in the industries which economists call natural monopolies whatever we may finally decide as to the advisability of government control of railroads and telegraphs and lighting plants still there will be the fight if it appears that the government should operate these
to induce the present owners to agree with us an almost hopeless task but with the advent of electric roads and lights and with such rivals of the telegraph and telephone as professor gray's telautograph may prove the advocates of government ownership will have their chance this is strikingly exemplified in the history of municipal control of lighting plants
where the towns willing to undertake the responsibility of electric plants are to those that would assume ownership of gas as ten to one electricity as a life-saver it will never be known how many lives have been saved by the introduction of electric lighting in our houses and streets in the stead of oil and gas
at first this might have seemed of dubious advantage when one heard stories of the fires which resulted from lighting wires and of men and horses killed in trolley accidents but since the improved methods of insulating have been applied and it is to be expected that more and more of the dangerous wires will be carried underground there can be no suspicion but that we have gained immensely in safety from fire
and this is of twofold importance on trains and in ships where fire so often leads to holocausts railroad accidents have been lessened in another way primarily of course by telegraphic dispatches without which we cannot imagine our great roads in use at all and also in the later inventions by which one can telegraph from a moving train currents being induced in the wires running parallel to the road
it seems to a layman little short of miraculous that the sender can tick on his instrument while the chicago flyer in which he is travelling is making sixty miles an hour and send a message by this wonderful property of induction over wires which may be so much as five hundred feet away
in certain of the great railroad's central offices there are charts in which all the trains at the moment in use are represented in miniature in the relative positions they actually occupy the movements being electrically recorded and when heating by electricity comes into general use as it certainly will we shall be advantaged further by immunity from the deadly car stove
in the ocean greyhounds that are again and again cutting off the distance between europe and america electrical devices are of signal service in reducing the danger to life the wearing on the ship's enormous shaft is announced when it gets to the danger point
to the engineer by a little electric bell which tinkles automatically the bearing having closed a circuit on reaching a certain fixed point in the shaft the terrible danger of collision with icebergs will be lessened through an application of that same small carbon button which registered a millionth of a degree of heat
an apparatus has already been arranged to effect this the nearing bergs announcing their presence through the increasing cold which the tazimeter records collisions and other dangers of navigation are rendered much less formidable too by the powerful electric searchlights equal to many thousand candle power that disclose objects for miles about in their mighty glare
A hundred years hence.
We shall almost certainly be flying.
The greatest difficulty at present in the way of that pleasing performance is the weight of the motor and fuel relative to the power necessary.
The chemical production of electricity will sweep away that obstacle by making possible the construction of motors weighing but a small fraction of the lightest now constructed, and by effecting an even more decided saving in fuel.
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