Show Iff r 1 I Great Inventions 1 I I And Discoveries L JI 11 VENTILATION On May 16 1741 a modest English clergyman named Hales stood up before beCore the members of the Royal Society of London to deliver to that l learned body one of the most vitally t l lup Important ret tort bits of Y Information f Y l it had up to that time received On that day Hales described to the society an invention for the ventilation ventilation ventilation tion of human habitations an lon an an Idea that was to result in more good to humanity than are the confabs of ot all the statesmen The Tho blood is s the life Bad air makes bad blood good air good goodblood goodblood goodblood blood and the logical conclusion is self evident EJ Euclid It 1 Is that t. t certain health e fil filo o of as body anything activity In of thought and to toa a large extent good 0 morals depend i e on the kind I of tf air that we breathe When we read of the way our ancestors ancestors ancestors an an- lived their dwellings always full o of poison polson laden air all in which they lived Jived through the day and slept through the night the wonder with us Is why it wa was that thy they did not T TTo all all' rl die off To us the tact fact Is as clear as day dav that in the unventilated room in which human beings live the gases from the lungs and hostile microorganisms microorganisms micro micro- organisms combine to vitiate ant ana destroy the health of oC body and mind and what some houses are today practically all were before ventilation ventilation ventilation tion came It is no wonder that they had bad a dr dreams s visions of and devils and were constantly harassed I by Lyall all sorts of cf f evil forebodings Little wonder is that they were stricken by smallpox bubonic I plagues black death and a lot of other pestilences that are now practically eliminated from the area of ot civilization The savants are still puzzled over the question Why did the higher civilization begin in lit little tIe Attica rath r than elsewhere It lt seems to me the answer Is clear The great Greek thinkers s who cre- cre atad art science and philosophy the drama oratory and the science science of of history breathed the purest air Inthe in Sn inthe the w wartS rU They were outdoors most of ot the daytime and their houses were BO so constructed that during the sleeping sleepIng sleepIng sleep- sleep Ing hours they got abundance o of pure airOn air all On the other hand the houses In Inmost most countries out outside of Greece were veritable black holes of ot Calcutta Calcutta Calcutta Cal Cal- reeking with the air that killed v When therefore the tha modest English Tin Tn gUsh glish parson got up to toll tell the gentlemen gentlemen gentlemen gen gen- of the Royal Society about his Invention for ventilating houses he was aS Inaugurating a philanthropic work of ot tremendous sl significance The gool gooi l pars pars-m may not have ha ea of be been aware of the tho fact a but to us it Is clear as can be that his remarks that day on ort his ventilator was the best sermon he ha ever delivered |