DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 89, 6 July 1927, Page 11

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

PROGRESS IN SCIENCE

( Copyright. 19 27. J A POPULAR science monthly publishes an interesting article recounting the recent steps in the advance of scientific attainment. It goes to show that science has a very vital connection with the prosperity of business, and it is more and more entering in as a factor into the business world. Gradually human knowledge is extending Its sphere out into the unknown. The waste places of the earth are being explored. There are few more virgin countries to be uncovered. Byrd and Amundsen have sailed over the North Pole, while a party of white men has recently penetrated the wilds of New Guinea in the South Seas. Transportation has developed amazingly. Spanish fliers have success fully made the 3,500-mile voyage across the Atlantic from Spain to South America, and Cobham is the only successful flier from England to Australia and back, a distance altogether of 28,000 miles. 4 It w r as not long ago since Jules Verne taxed the incredulity of us all by describing a circuit around the world in eighty days. Recently Wells and Evans encircled the globe in twenty-eight days. In America alone commercial aircraft flew 1.774,268 miles. Radio and television apparatus have wonderfully improved. Only recently communication by the human voice was used from Los Angeles to England. The cathode rav of Dr. Coolidge and Dr. Millikan are outstanding recenj wonders. Artificial gasoline from liquified coal; fuels from sawdust, water, coal and molasses. A monster 80,000 kilowatt turbine generator, the largest in the world, has been instated for the Brooklyn Edison Company, and the Commonwealth Edison Company of Chicago and the United Electric Light and Power Company of New York contemplate still greater ones. The campaign against disease is being successfully prosecuted. Serum has been discovered for distribution for hitherto unknown bacteria. Besides this, larger telescopes are being constructed which will increase man’s knowledge of the heavens and important discoveries have been made in anthropology and archaeology. Entomology has discovered an insect murderous enough to attack almost any caterpillar. It is being used against the gypsy moth, the brown moth and many other pests. Altogether the scientist has been proving himself a very useful individual and not a mere crazy theorist.