Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-22 | Page 9 | [Illegible] of War [Illegible] Shown

IlSllFIil IIS SHOWN ,is m of Death-deal-lVeap0ns Explained at Exposition. 1,ittee Passes Upon Than 2000 Devices During Conflict. ,, He Tribune. -Vox, May 20. At the ed-' ed-' sition being given by the ".'of She interior in its build-,;eenih build-,;eenih aud F streets, Wash-.jU Wash-.jU iteck there are beinf; dis--""tlie first time since the war ;'. varjoii3 military inventions .,tfJ under the ban of stricter strict-er until the Hun was licked. ',5 Broivninp gun and the - rifle, patents upon Vhich have - -ranted, are included in these 'g devices that aided great-..-;Eg about victory. ft other inventions are eau-o'fijitely eau-o'fijitely stated at this time, ':;,arcd by responsible offi-te offi-te patent ofi'ice who know 7ts that if some of them, as '.'.certain new projectiles for k-id gone into actual use, Ger-'M Ger-'M have been plowed under 'an off the earth. Airplanes, and automatics would have mil bombed the whole interior ' of Germany and gases would i used that would not have .Wd all life like the. scythe ' time, bat also would have de-! de-! vegetation and perhaps ren-ie ren-ie soil useless for years to ,:y Maintained. -artment is also explaining for viinie the elaborate machinery s. employed to keep from the -3V information regarding new I s; of military importance. This I .ility, upon which it might be I , security of the entire country 9 Evolved upon seven serious J ; cif the patent office known as I :;rv examiners committee. Each f -tf this committee was a tried -.Sid employee of the patent of-integrity of-integrity was unquestioned, be the case in view of the ex--jfhods the Huns were using in it-flung spy system. This inner if seven was sworn to absolute f! to the details of every ap-; ap-; ior a patent of a military na-1 na-1 also as to the suggestions and it poured in from friendly coun-:i coun-:i they were instructed to hold h device from patent until the j over. They were instructed, that any of these ideas and that might prove helpful isr authorities should be com-'d com-'d to them at once. Passed On. n acted under the authority " laws passed by congress in '.h relating to the secrecy of in-, in-, and one giving the federal 'Mission authority over mat-to mat-to trading with the enemy. as an application for patent i'i under an order of secrecy, ? connected with the patent ' or patent lawyer was en- secrecy, and all were told that "'i of this order meant a fine 'tor ten years' imprisonment, An army and navy patent also instituted to study the ' pending in the patent of-rr.:i of-rr.:i B! 'f any of these should be 1 the attention of the military y- This secret advisory com-t, com-t, the war passed upon more (: '"wnd ideas, suggestions or ' "Inch it was believed might be "i "to the cause of the allies or 1 Elates government, and out 1 1'ltcs-tions found that some fP were of sufficient impor-ii impor-ii 1 1 submitted to the military It is said that many of these "-ere adopted, and it is be-f be-f -.ym had an important in-M in-M 111 belping to win the war. e -; nis Granted. ' f,riflilly the whole world was l the Biiccess of the allies -"' .';:,J? i's ingenuity to circum- is seen in the fact MMsory board received eight - Irani England, twentv-five om Switzerland, one one from Austruliu, ono 'KilaiHl, throe from Mexico, i?1,""' flYe from Spain ,lu,K' ono from Russia, , rom Poland and one writ- u Presumably from bor addition there "wero a ot American inventions p d under the order of so-" so-" i ,.ir U0W beine Krantod - i ,0ns as "ipidly as the lJtthe patent office.