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Show 1 ' -' WONDERS HAVE SHORT LEASE j Magazine Writer Showa Hew Rapidly Remarkable Invention Tread on Each Other'a Heel. "Not n (treat mnny years ago a peo tacled and skeptical old scientist wrote a long thesis In which ho claimed that tho world's grcnt discoveries all lay In the past, that tho future had no new wonders to disclose, and that all the ! really fundamental Inventions, dlscov- 1 erics and researches had already been madi" snys J. S. Newman, In tho February St. Nicholas. j "'For,' said tho pessimistic philosopher, philoso-pher, 'thero aro no more strange lands to explore, no more conceivable Inventions Inven-tions for the benefit of mankind. The telegraph, electric light, telephone and electric motor are already here. The camera and microscope, telescope and linotype, printing press and sewing machine, airship and steamboat nro already al-ready discovered. What olso la thero left that Is really new?' "But Mother Nature seemed to havo kept her most wonderful secrets for Just such nn occasion. As If deliberately deliber-ately to disprove tho foolish scientist, the next ten years brought out tho most astounding collection of now Inventions In-ventions nnd discoveries tho world has eer knoun. For In tho period Immediately Imme-diately following tho bold claim of this doubting Thomas, Hertz discovered electric waves, Marconi Invented wireless wire-less telegraphy, Iloentgen stumbled upon tho X-ray, Madame Curio Isolated radium, SlrWIIllnm Itnmsay found flvo new chemical dements, Edison mndo his first moving picture machine, the Wright brothers conquered tho ulr and countless greuter or lesser discoveries nntounded the scientific world. "So the seven groat wonders of today to-day will become the commonplaces of tomorrow 1" |
