p. 11 | THE ELECTRIC AGE by Prof. E. L. Larkin

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 49.

THE ELECTRIC AGE.

By Prof. E. L. Larkin

It is not possible to even imagine the advance now being made in electricity. The world is making history now before one's eyes, an epoch that will be looked upon in the future as one of vast import, and students will be taught the beginning of the electrical age, that begun in 1880, and got well under way in 1902. The history of past ages does not present such a general movement of mankind. Vast capital is being put into electric appliances daily; new plants are put in every day, new railways and new everything. The dynamo has been so much improved, that it is now almost a perfect machine. That is, it gives back more of the power put into it than any other mechanism. Electric ocean ships are in sight, and the ocean telephone also. A post-office is to be placed in the Atlantic. A ship is to be anchored, and will be supplied with spacegraphs, and grams can be sent from passing ships and letters mailed. Soon daily papers giving the news of the world will be printed at 5 A.M. on ocean liners.—Prof. E. L. Larkin.