Show inventions to forward period of prosperity the stage Is set for the noblest prosperity in all history says a writer in an eastern magazine thousands of inventions await us A queer new tube Is ready to displace tons tens of millions of dollars worth of electrical equipment and cut in III halt half the hie cost of trans transmitting mittin power sugar added to cement more than doubles its strength thus tomorrows buildings will rise more cheaply and better strange alloys are on hand for reducing the weight of trains autos and airplanes automotive engineers say eay that it if the producers wished 1 they could double the lives of their cars at a slight increase of cost the list of precious improvements on hand hall but still unused Is almost endless and infuriating the reason they are not available now Is that nobody can be sure that people stand ready to foot the bill the art of making things hasteen has been perfecto perfected chiefly t through brou h advances in physics rind and chemistry its techniques are those of the engineer but the art of analyzing peoples wishes and then influencing them theria to use things Is still on the level of the camp meeting evangelist it its exponents employ the sawdust trail ballyhoo and incantations |