New sources of energy still sough

Conservative individuals have a strong tendency to greet with loud cries and derisive laughter each new method of power generation and application which their more imaginative fellows envision. While Fulton was the jest of “Kttle old New York” the Clermont was about to accomplish the definitely “impossible.” While Edison devised amazingly clumsy devices for the use of electrical energy as reactionaries scoffed, the electrification of America was embryonically on its way. Again, Elwood Haynes and the Wrights were quite mad. Any normal person of thirty or forty years ago knew that.