Ted Leinhart
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251 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Ted Leinhart’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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as one result of the flying machine among the many which it will affect even revolutionary in character a writer has pointed out that we shall probably be delivered from the institution of war since such terrible destruction will be possible with a corps of fighting airplanes that no nation will dare to risk it
farming by electricity has been successfully tried in the southern states and it is not improbable that we shall see the agriculturist of the future sawing his wood cutting his ensilage shelling his corn threshing his wheat and running his creamery with power from a small electric plant owned in cooperation with a half-dozen of his neighbors
we should be whisking our heavy baggage too unwieldy for the airplanes through the country by electricity applied to some telpherage or other system we shall be cooking by electricity and heating and lighting our houses our cars and our ships
we shall not only cook our meals we shall probably serve them too to judge from an experiment made not long ago in baltimore with much eclat seeing hearing and thinking by electricity but these methods fairly seem old-fashioned besides some of the feats which our most daring electricians are considering as possible
if we hear by electricity through the telephone why do these undismayed men ask can we not see at a distance by the same agency the vibrations of light are to be sure many times more rapid than those of sound but it is merely a question of obtaining a diaphragm which will respond to those vibrations
may we not look forward to seeing from our easy arm-chair in new york the latest drama at the theatre francais and since hearing is but a tickling of the brain by vibrations may we not if our apparatus for introducing these vibrations to the brain centres gets out of order if in short we are deaf lead the impulses to the brain through the bones of the head by electrical means
With the problems of seeing and hearing by electricity established, there is not so wide a gap to bridge over to the idea of thought transference by the same means.
Everything they have observed leads our psychologists and physiologists to suspect that the impulses from the brain along the nerves to the muscles are, if not electric, at any rate inextricably combined with electrical phenomena.
all of us know the simple experiment in our physiological lessons of making an electrical impulse act on a frog's muscles as an act of volition from the brain if it be true that thinking is or is always accompanied by an electrical disturbance
why should we not be able to induce thoughts in other people's brains corresponding to our own mr edison worked on this bizarre problem with much earnestness he and his assistant mr batchelor fitted up their craniums with a coil of wire each and connecting the two with a string impregnated successively with various conducting substances the thinkers thought away sturdily testing at intervals the effect on each other
Many times, said Mr. Edison, their hearts were in their mouths with the belief that the connection had been established, but on laying traps for one another it was invariably found that the result was but the product of their strained imaginations.
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