150 Master Minds of Modern Science 



That prophecy and those that preceded it in this 

 chapter come from the imagination of the man whose 

 genius lifted the first wireless-controlled and pilotless 

 aeroplane into the air. Remarkable as they appear to 

 us to-day, these prophecies touch only the fringe of the 

 almost limitless possibilities of the sciences by which 

 we are solving the secrets of Nature and bringing her 

 boundless resources to the service of the human race. 



