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Show STRANGE THINGS ARE HAPPENING Of the most notable achievements in mechanics during the past ear, the successful operation of flying machines, undoubtedly, will take first place in a review of world progress in the 3rcars to come. So far aviation has attained no commercial results. The flying machines are simply exhibition novelties, but eventually, as gas engines are improved and made more reliable, or as electric storage batteries are perfected and great power is rlorcd in a small space and weight, the flying machine will enter into the serviceable field. Who can forecast the possibilities? Wireless telegraph, less than a rU-cade old, came to us as a plaything; and. going further back, . we had the telephone as an amusement, until the phonograph supplanted sup-planted it as a novelty now both ere quite indispensable. Wireless Wire-less telegraph is today the voice of the deep which, in shipwreck or pending disaster, cries out and the appeal reaches the distant shores, even 2000 miles away. The x-ray, another novelty of yesterday, is the life-saver of today. When doctors disagree, the x-ray diagnoses and with an accuracy ac-curacy beyond question. We have seen shadowgraphs made in Ogden which disclosed the structure of the body with a clearness that left nothing to desire in arriving at the cause of the subject's affliction in bone malformation, and our doctors are daily dependent on this aid in their profession. Radium is promising us much. It is a wonderful sub3tance recovered re-covered from pitchblende, an ore containing uranium. The heat and the light of radium never diminish or! at least, the depreciation deprecia-tion in energy is so small as to be imperceptible. With the conquering of the air, the harnessing of the invisible jvireless forces, the peering" into the human body and tho winning of new power from nature, the world certainly is making progress it a speed that makes us wonder as to what the future holds in store for us. |