The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, April 01, 1904, Page 3, Image 3
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A DREAM OF THE FUTURE.
Possibility of Seeing by Wire May i
Soon Become an Assured Fact.
Vill the w.-rid I-> around sme
day before .ur eye-. wherever we may.
be?- Vill event.; a long way off be
brought within our sight as they oc- i
e:Ur? ask,; a writer in the 1-don
Mail. 1
Time and space are dissappearing
fast. There i,; still alive the wid *w -
f the me-,senger wh- hurried to
Rome t,o and Sir Robert Peel when
1-e came h-me to form hiz trst nil-ii
trv. and Sir- Robert travelled by the
ame means and at the same speed as
he Emperor. Hadrian. traveled from
Rme in the days when Rome ruled
the wrld. Men still live who ride
n the tlrst trains, spoke over the lirst
telephiines and sent off the irst tell
LgramIs. The very men who gave us
teegraplhs and telephones are invent
ing for us still.
And one of them. the man whom
the world can never pay its debts. is
L-n the eve. we are told. of announc
ing an achievement with which nothing
in the world today can compare. Mr.
Edison, who turned night into day
with his electric light, who made a 1
little box speak so that friend may
talk to friend across the earth, and
the message spoken today may be
heard after ages of time, is said to
hope soon to invent a telephone which
will carry not only sound. but sight
or which will bring, perhaps we
should say, 'not only the human
voice along the wire, but the image of
him who utters it as well.
It is one of the great dreams, and,
if the brief telegram which came from
New York last week is true, most of
us will live to see it realized. More
than once we have been told that the
great secret of picking up the waves
of light has been discovered. and "see
ing by wire" has been declared to be
an accomplished fact. And the picture
of an event two miles away has been
actually seen. we know, at the other
end of the wire. But it is the genius
of Mr. Edison to change theory into I
fact. to bring wonderful things out of!
the clouds down to our common
earth. and the announcement that has
just been made means that at last
the secret of the laboratory is to be
the possession of us all.
Nothing has yet been made known
as to Mr. Edison's method of making!
the telephone an instrument for re- 1
fecting an image as well as for con
veying a sound. but it is interesting
to remember how z*is result has al
ready been attained by an inventor
of whose invention we have yet heard
very little.
Jan Szezepanik, before he carved
his way to fame which may yet grow
into immortality, was a village school
master in Poland. the land which gave
him birth. He had been to school
himself, as we are told, at Cracow,
had read translations of Shakespeare
and the books of Dr. Smiles; studied
optics and electricity; and at 20 was
earning 22 a year by teaching fifty
boys at the Polish village of Korzyna.
But today, at 32, he is doing other
work. Jan Szezepanik-pronounced
Shtepanik-needs no introduction to
the world as an inventor. His famous
weaving machine will produce a web
in as many hours as it would take
years by the old way. Two or three
years ago, in the presence of Francis
Joseph, the young inventor establish
ed his claim to have invented a ma
ehineas wonderful as any of the won
derful machines of our tin:.e. At the
Techni-al Art Museum, in Vienna,
he presented to the Eniperor of Aus
tria the first tapesty prioduced by his
new process, a marvellous allegorical
representation of homage to the em
peror, containing 20o,000,000 crossings
,f silk threads! More than 200 square1
yiards of cards' would have been nec
essary to the production of this web
by the old methods, and the work
w'ould have taken perhaps four years.]
By the newv photographic method the
web was begun and completed in nyvet
iours!
Szezepanik did not leap at onceI
nto fame. The royal recognition
:ame after long, hopeless struggles.
xhich have been the lot of inventors
md djiscovers in all time. The royal
'ecogmition came after streets or;
ienna waiting in vain for the patron
ge of a mnister to wvhom he had
hoenxtt his invemlions. and at length
ihope *.i government help being
hmle:! :. the gra::d. Szezepanik
anil a capitalist wvho listened to him
m believed him. Herr Ludwig
Kleinberg. a man of money and af
'airs, provided funds for a small fac
ory n whchte inento wore
Nt wearsi and a hait. _N.\f.rtinne
l 111ed the t e1) )tth. Fiht
nme- the weaving machine was Set
. a d eght ime itfaled t.- d.,it
1rk. The Canitalist wa- threatened
vith ruin. hint the citcrpri1'-e wa
aved at the last hour by a German
rehitect. Franz Habrich. who joined
lie cincern and.br.,nght nire innds.
hnce inire the machine was made.
lie magical w wa) w4 #een. a(
;zczepanik was free t, decate him
eif the idea stil! nearer tI hiz
car --tac idea z lite c ist:mee
eer. which was to anihilat e space
mi( brin- distant scenes t 1,1111. -n,d
hems.elve- befo re his sight.
Ii--w this was done xvtilnl take tf)i
ng. and take t.i techic.al ilan-tuage.
I te here. Let it sit'cle I say that
>y a v nderin! arranigemient if lenses
;id disk, :he wave-s cf light are
ransformed int electricity at AnC
;I of the wire. carried over the wire
ike a teleplione message. and cn
erted back into rays of light at the
ther end.
The things we see with our eyes. as
he verest school boy knows are not
vhat they appear to be. When we
ee St. Paul's Cathedral. we see a mil
ion, or many millions. of rays of
ight given out by a million. or many
nillions. of points on the surface of
;t. Paul's. and the eye. receiving
hese millions of rays .of light, forms
hem for the brain into a perfect pic
:tire. So, standing at one end of a
vire. Jan Szezepanik sees, not a man
>r a house at the other end, but the
mage of a man or house formed on
:he retina of his eye by the waves of
ight given off by $he man of the
iouse. picked tip by his selenium
lisk, conveyed as electricity over the
,vire. and received and made visible
n a photographic plate.
Seven years have passed since-for
:he first time. we need not doubt, in
he history of the world-a man with
>nly human eyes stood in a room and
)aw, reflected in the room, an image
)f something two mile' away. It
vas the first experiment with the
electroscope, and it established the
)ossibility of the inventor's theory.
\ lens having been focused so that
lie image of a church fell upon it.
he plate was -xposed. at a given sig
ial. and in Herr Kieinberg's house.
ibout two miles distance. Herr
leinberg. Jan Szezepanik and Herr
Schmidt. an electrical engineer.
>lainly saw the picture-faint and
lurred, but recognizable-of the
:hiurch.
Seven years is as -a moment in the
voik of evolution which is changing
:he face of this wonderful world, and
oday men are still content in London
f the telephone brings them sound
ind not sight. Too often it is deaf
Lnd dumb, as well as blind. But Jan
3zezepanik has not been working
done to realize this great dream. A
3erman inventor, Maximilian Pless
ter, is a pioneer in the same field,
tnd we are told that last year that
:he French government was negotia
ting for the rights of the "specto
traph," another kind of telephone in
rented in Paris.
It makes all the difference in the
w'orld, however, that Mr. Edison now
>romises that we shall see by wire.
FIe speaks our language and thinks
ur thoughts, and he belongs, wizard
ts he is, in our own real world.
t may yet be that we shall sit by
>ur firesides and see our k.in across
he sea, that we shall be "switched
>n" from our drawing rooms to be
>resent at .some great battled field,
tnd that the streets of all the world's
:apitals will be familiar to those who
iever leave the streets of our own
~ondon. Some maker of dictionaries
n that day will cross out "space"
nd "distance" and '"invisible" as
w,ords without a meaning, and the
>rotherhood of man will come, not
hrough religion, but through science.
Prepared For the Spring.
'hiladelphia Press.
"Well, boys," said the school mas
er. as he prepared to take his seat
me morning. "Isuppose all are pre
ared for an early spring."
"Yes, sir," said the small boy who
eas invariably blamed for everything.
but I- wxant to tell von I. didn't put it
m vonr chair."
Then the school master discovered
he hent pin antd the spr;ner was post
ned.
"Dn'n use oor 'soap.." read HuIn
ry' Ilawkiins from the piece of
ewspaper that came with a hand
Ut.
"Some folks waste a lot uv words,"
rowled Weary Walker. "In dat sen
ence I'd law' out the word 'poor' ."
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