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Show WHEN AN INVENTOR JOKES Oftlmcs Men Don't See the Significance Signifi-cance of Discoveries Not Infrequent' great inventors do not comprehend tho significance of tho thing thoy lmvo produced. An Interesting nnccdoto of two famous men of science whose foresight did not equal their invcntlvo ability follows. fol-lows. When Hertz first began to obtain satisfactory results from his own famous fa-mous researches into tho possibility of transmitting electric waves certain raei: of sclcnco suggested that somo day similar vibrations might servo to ti'anrmlt messages through space. Hcrtr. laughed at tho hypothesis, am nsrured all comers that his ox-penments ox-penments were for laboratories only. Now, after a few short years, It Is hard to find a slnglo lssuo of a dally paper that does not record somo noto- ' worthy example of tho uso of wlrcloss telegraphy. I.oVnssor was tho great engineer who sketched tho motorcar with such skill that his design has not materially material-ly changed to this day. After lovas-sor lovas-sor accomplished his historic trip from Paris to Bordeaux and fetum, at tho dizzy speed of fifteen miles an hour, his admirers gavo him a banquet. ban-quet. During tho toasts, one of them, stirred by tho spirit of tho occasion, roso and enthusiastically called on tho assembly to drink to tho M-proaching M-proaching day when carriages should travel nt the speed of sixty miles in hour. Lovnssor turned to his nearest neighbor and asked in a quick undertone under-tone Why is It that after every ban quct somo pcoplo feol called on to mako fools of themselves?" Tit Bits |