Daily Gleaner, Thursday, October 21, 1897
[Editorial] We are getting so accustomed to discoveries of all kinds and their application to the practical ends of daily life that the progress that is being made is not fully realized. The one great lesson these teach is humility. They show us our ignorance of natural laws and they indicate how wide and full of possibilities is the region which still remains covered from our sight. We need not be surprised if discoveries far surpassing in interest, importance and practical utility are made even within the limits of our individual lives. Each addition to our knowledge is but a stepping-stone on which others are reached, and there are many investigators at present at work on the existing boundaries—perceiving dimly the outlines of new truths and new inventions that may revolutionise vast tracts of human activity. ……………. We are not venturing much when we say that the time is probably coming when the machines and contrivances that now do the world's work will be looked at in antiquarian museums by a curious and fortunate public enjoying in their daily life the things that are nothing but dreams to the most daring imagination to-day. |
I am trying - unsuccessfully to date - to find out something about this machine, and to find a picture of it!!