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telephone have produced an abridgement of time that 75 to 100 years ago would have seemed the Impossible hope of the dreamer* The telegraph and telephone - especially the

telegraph - has made the world of nations next door neighbors. The civilizing influence of contact, the impossibility of isolation, the knowledge of what is going on the world over and the change that such knowledge must produce in one's point of view, the effect of auoh knowledge on the development of our race, are all matters that must " e traced more or less to b the work of the investigator and the engineer in the invention and development of our great schemes of communication either by telegraph or by telephone, local or international. The development of the business of the generation and distribution of electric energy will probably have within the next quarter of a century more influenoe on the development of our local communities, not alone the large cities but our rural communities throughout our states wherever there is any considerable density of population* Heretofore the business of producing and distributing energy to an economical basis has been confined very largely to our large cities, but the marvelous work of our engineers during the last two decades, the great changes that have taken place in connection with the development of prime movers, the changes from the reciprocating engine to the steam turbine, the changes in use of units of 6000 horsepower to units of from 80.000 - 40,000 horse-power, are