Show Thomas A Edison was asked recent ly I If I he thought the twentieth century t would surpass the nineteenth in invention inven-tion and particularly in the partculary application applica-tion of electricity He promptly replied re-plied that it would and then promptly 3 added that In the first adde frst place there were more to work and in the second place they knew more to start with But all the same none of us knows any i thing about anything which is construed r con-strued to mean that until it is definitely settled what electricity we are only I on the threshold of achievement That is not new on the part of IMr Edison I because every electrician will say the same thing They know thinS there is a power called electricity from which 3 j they can produce certain results but i those results are full of contradlctfons end the wisest of men I cannot under Bland whence It comes or whither 01 whiher it goes The wisest of them Is but on r the threshold of the science and more I ji It Is likely always to be BO Steam can be measured so can cn compressed air t i but electricity la almost all elcctrlcl as much of a I mystery as It was before Franklin Frnlln go 1 a little response from It by his kite kte I is an allpowerful agent that can shiver an oak In an Instant and I putout put-out human life In an Instant that car car run cars and no end of machinery and create artificial sunlight but vhat cer g lain combinations produce It i or in what quantity or in what form II pervades tho earth and the air and F where Ha secret brewing place Is anc are t mysteries which nobody can explain |