Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-05-01 | Page 12 | The Jungle Dwarf

The Jungle Dwarf : v IN THE: Malay jungles Carveth Wells, explorer, found a dwarf with a remarkable invention. The tlwarf a little, coffee colored chap was one of the lowest forms of life, nearly aslow as the dog-eating Igorots of Luzon were a generation gener-ation ago before the coming of the white mart. This dwarf had a fire-making tool. It was a bone plunger, with a leather washer to make it air tight. This plunger was inserted in a piece of hollow bone closed at on; end. The dwarf carried a pouch made from 'the1 cocoon of a jungle moth. In this pouch he hiJ a supply of tinder, dried vegetable powder fiber. He placed a tiny bit of the tinder on the end of the plunger, put the plunger in its bone holder, struck it one sharp blow. Pulling it out, the tinder was afire. This process, the reverse of a vacuum, causes' combustion bv the comnression e of air. The jungle dwarf's invention is the same principle as the famous Diesel engine, wheih generates heat by compression. The jungle dwarfs of Malaysia probably have had this bone fire-maker for thousands of years. Yet It never occurred to them to apply the principle prin-ciple to anything except making fire. Rudolf Diesel, German inventor, born in Paris, discovered discov-ered the same principle in 18'H. He was quick to see its possibilities in the generating of power. The difference between Rudolf Diesel and the Malay jungle dwarf was largely one of Imagination, Imagina-tion, the greatest brain faculty developed by civilization. People talk about how many great inventions are 4,stumtiled on" by accident. More important than the accident is possession of sufficient vision to realize possibilities of the find. Exercise your Imagination. Study Einstein, all new discoveries. Investigate instead of laughing at the bizarre. Good imagination, which can be developed like rmrscles, is a bid for future wealth.