MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1931.
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FOR 1ST
IN U. S.
First Electric Light Glowed
in Laboratory 52 Years
Ago One of 1300 Inven
tions Credited to Wizard
Over Half of 6322 Fires This
Year Caused by Bolts
Smokers and Firebugs
Next in Line As Cause
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By W. W. Dun
NEW YORK. (AP) Thomas
Edison turned a
"dark ages" ended.
For the dim slectrlc lamp, that
glowed In his laboratory 62 yean ago
was the brightest spot in a pattern
of Inventive progress that, transform
ed his times.
At the very moment that this pro-
' phetlo beacon lighted up the jeager
face of the 32-
l vMrolrf inventor
I every gas light
f 1 must have flic
1 Vrl apprehen-
Lantern gasped In
lte own smoke,
and every horse
car creaked om
inously.
For the genius
of this sturdy
youth of Dutch
ancestry was the
master key that
unbarred the
door to the age
of electr 1 c 1 1 y,
and rel e g a t e d
;hem to rubbish
heaps,
Q a 1 v a n had
sensed a myster
ious force which made the frog leg
Jump when sprinkled with salt. But
Edison saw In this same force the
promise of a world turned electro
mechanical. Under his guidance the principles
linked with Volta, Ampere, Ohm and
the others crackled their way from
musty laboratories Into home, office1
. and factory. I
They coursed through the filament
of hli orude ' Inoandesoent lamp,
energised the transmitter he contrib
uted to pioneer telephony and be
came his partners In Improving oth
er devices' whloh have become Indis
pensable In Industry and the home.
Always the Inventor
For this former train newsboy, who
entered telegraphy when the grateful
father of a child whose life he had
saved taught him the subject, early
learned to apply a teat to his Inven
tive visions.
It was. In effect, the question
whether he would find at the end
of his task a product or a method
useful to the world. In the end he
was credited with more than 1300
patents,.
The electrlo Incandescent light,
which first glowed for him. Is per
haps his outstanding contribution.
But the same persistency which
kept him beside the first bulb until
It burned out after 40 hours brought
hint success In virtually every line of
Inventive endeavor.
Improved Telegraphy
Even before this, while yet In hts
twenties, he had profited from Im
provements to stock tickers and had
made valuable contributions to teleg
raphy and telephony.
In 1877 his carbon grain transmit'
tar aided In bringing Alexander Gra
ham Bali's telephone into wider use.
The phonograph he invented fol
lowing Inspiration from his tele
phone experiments was destined to
replace the old muslo boxes that
shared with family albums the places
oi honor in parlors of the period.
Invented "Electrlo Pen"
to omces which then had no
means of duplicating letters and
documents, his "electrlo pen" was the
forerunner of the modern duplicator
while his dictating machine was a
later extension of the phonograph.
His name was given to a phenome
non observed In the passage of elec
tricity from a filament to a metal
. piate Inside an Incandescent bulb.
And the principle behind this "Edi
son effect" later was the basis of
the modern radio.
Motion pictures had their origin
In his "Klnetescoplo camera" view
ed through a peep-hole.
Added to Nation's Wealth
In 1938, when he received the con
gressional gold medal, the value of
his Industries dependent In whole
or In part upon his Inventions was
estimated officially at nearly 10 bil
lion dollars.
Based upon this estimate, he bad
added S30.ooo.000 annually for a half
century to the nation's wealth.
Merely to catalog his outright In
ventions would be to slight the con
tributions he made in Improving
what others had begun.
, For Edlion found one world and
left another.
Our hero leads his braves today to
battle there they go I
And who should laugh If It's a corn
crib that's their deadly foe?
And who should laugh If at the end
that foe Is brought to rcut.
With red and white and yellow ears
of corn strewn all about?
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Meteorological Report
October 10, 1031
Medford and vicinity: Tonight and
Saturday fair and mild.
Oregon: Fair tonight and Saturday
but overcast on coast; mild temperature.
Lowest temperature this morning
o oegrees.
Temperature a year ago today;
Highest 68; lowest 31.
Total precipitation since Sept, 1,
1931, 1.23 Inches.
Relative humidity at o p. m, yes
terday 21 degrees; 5 a, m. today 70
degrees. - ,
Sunset today, 6:28 p. m.
' Tomorrow: Sunrise 6:20 a. m. Sun
set 6:27 p. m.
Observations Taken at 5 a. rn 1j0
Merldlai. Time.
I Baker City 72 3
Boston -... 64 58 .14
Boise ....,. 78 44
00 48
. 68 88 .
Chicago
Denver
Des Molnee ... 64
Fresno .. 88
Helena' ... 68
Los Angeles
Medford
48 ...
63
36
82
41 ..
68 at
60 T.
.... 80
83
New York 74
Phoenix 82
Portland 78 60 .
Reno ,. 78 46 ..
Roseburg . 78 42 ....
Salt Lake 70 48
San Francisco.... 70 66 ...
Seattle ...... 68 60
Spokane 70 40 ..
Washington, O.O. 78 68 .82
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WASHINGTON (AP) -Lightning,
beyond control of forest patrola, is
by far the chief cause of such foreat
fires as have charred and blackened
northwest lumber areas larger than
the state of Delaware. In recent
'weeks.
More than half the 6322 fires in
National forests, so far, In 1031, were
started by lightning bolts, reports
the United States foreat service.
Careless smokers and Incendiaries
were next In Importance a causes.
Spreading campflree, brush-burning
operations, locomotive sparks
and lumber camps accounted for
most of the others.
Eighth of Fire Lou.
Forest fire losses are roughly about
62.fiOO.000 annually, or one-eighth
of the nation's total annual fire
loss of about $600,000,000, forest
service figures covering the past five
years, indicate.
Bo far In 1031 fires In national
forests alone have burned more than
384,168 acres of timber. Damage
to private timber lands, not yet
estimated, has been far greater.
Fires In the northwest are be
lieved to have destroyed 1,500,000
acres of government and privately
owned forests. The federal govern
ment has spent more than 1)2,000,
000 already this year In fighting
fires on its own land.
Lookouts Spot Fires.
More than 300 federal forest fire
lookouts ceaselessly scan ridges and
valleys for telltale columns of smoke
About 67 per cent of forest fires
are spotted and put under control
before they burn more than 10
acres.
When a fire gets out of control,
leaping through tree tops and bur
rowing through underbrush and the
dry humus that covers the soil,
flinging advance guards of sparks
as much as half a mile, hundreds
of fire-fighters are mobilized.
While the forest ranger In charge
of the battle soars over the burning
woods In an airplane to learn the
extent and direction of the enemy's
movements, the ground forces dig
miles of trenches In a double flank
attack designed to gradually , narrow
down and "pinch out" the fire's
progress.
Use Portable Pumps.
PumpSi carried on backs of men
and horses, are rushed to strategic
points. Dead trees Inside the lire
lines are cut down before they catch
fire and explode, scattering sparks
to start new fires.
Fire fighters have the best chance
to gain the upper hand at night
when the wind usually drops, hu
midity Increases, smoke clings closer
to the ground, shutting off oxygen,
and the fire has to reduce Its speed
TOPEKA, Kan. Oct. 16. (AP) In a
stormy session, a non-partisan meet
ing of Kansas taxpayers adopted to
day resolution demanding a special
session of the state legislature on or
before December 1, 1931, "for the
purpose of providing means for dras
tic reduction of taxes and for no
other purpose."
STEERS DROWN WHEN
IS
NEW YORK, Oot. 18 (AP) Pre
diction that man's average life la
about to be increased from SB years
to 70 years, due to a "new type of
medicine" was maue at the American
College of 8 ur peons' meeting today,
by Dr. Charles H. Mayo of Rochester,
Minn.
This new phase of healing Is a
combination of medical care with the
aid of the Individual efforts and In
telligence o: the patient.
"The added span Till come about
through education, teaching people
that they must take care of them
selves and how to do It," Dr. Mayo
said,
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