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I 0 r r i l h w w f. f i tI Possible Conflict Between the Lyon Lyona a ca Ton Ton Electric Gyro Cruiser I f Scientifically i i A Realistic Conception of a Between i t m Armed With Twelve Inch 17 Guns and grad Capable of Crashing Across Hills and Valleys at Express Speed Speedy and the l c Gernsback k Trench Tractor a Wheeled Two T wo- wo Monster Which Walks Walk's Over Trenches and Deals Out Death on Every Side 4 r t ELECTRIFYING A WARSHIP US' US xi DIAGRAM T showing the operation of the tentacle The I 1 L JL torpedoes are shot out from a mother ship from which they t are guided by electricity through a fine wire They have magnets on their noses by which they attach themselves to the hulls of t warships and a powerful electric current is sent ent out electrifying r the hostile vessel and paralyzing all on board A F the British fleet could climb out of the sea dash overland t IF on on wheels and attack the German erman trenches at some point in In Flanders what would happen It would d not only make a breach in the lines but would pass right on 4 spreading devastation far fai and wide until its guns guns were smashing smash smash- r ing in Berlin into a heap of smoking ruins ruins tl Sounds fantastic doesn't it Yet the idea is no more absurd than many of the devices crevices in in actual use se in modem modern warfare would have s seemed erred emed if proposed to Napoleon or Washington Washington- P S- S or Frederick the Great The gunboat already has its land counterpart in m the th armored A i automobile w why y may not the super-dreadnought super some day have its counterpart in the I 1 huge fortress on wheels Plans Pla s and specifications for such an engine of warfare have already been prepared by b Eric R. R Lyon and are published in a recent number of the Electrical Experimenter Exp f. f That magazine prints also descriptions of sev several ral other extraordinary war ma machines es which fantastic as they may seem to us now no now are are scientifically possible One of these is designed by H. H who calls caUs jt it the trench tractor Yet another is the tentacle tentacle- imagined imag by George Frederic Stratton Str to precipices and deep rivers To juggernaut a horse power horsepower power generator and a horsepower horse orse- orse f Diesel engine engin are provided Fifteen or ot sixteen revolutions a a minute will send it along at sixty power miles an n hour This terrific war r engine engine engine-a a a ven veritable table land dreadnought is is made possible etron by the ingenious e 1 y construction of the gyroscope which depends upon the spiral whirling whaling of 2000 tons tons tons' water of-water and t twelve 40 ton 40 ton metal spheres in in a circular ar tu tube e 1 p feet in in diameter by 25 fe feet t in cross section tf turning fuming at a speed of eight mII miles s a a minute in m an Iron iron iron case Mr s 's s tr trench tractor involves v lyes no s such ch stupendous s engineering o construction but is is rF if 0 v r He describes it wheeled two wheeled led monster propelled by A tX r h equally picturesque e in m conception s t. t as a two w e I almost walk walls ordinary trenches with th ease There are two r u size en es rIc electricity and of sufficient SIZe to to over r E mot motor motor driven r wheels forty f feet hio h high nh gh and fifteen fe feet t thick sup supporting sup sup- 18 t 1 like crane framework ork the part business business art r p 26 porting rtin be between e th them from rom a crane P e f rr t lon and lift fifteen feet d feet fee ware W. W of the e ma machine This is IS about seventy se long g een fee s square 9 1 r. r r r r S It is heavily armored ored to protect its crew y of of m men n with 3 3 inch inch a and d 3 t 6 I J I i 6 6 inch inch ra rapid id firing guns sup supplies lies steam generating plant wireless T- T j lm l- l v i 17 c apparatus if inventors inventor The r This body swings about ten feet a above the ground f. f y idea is is to have the tractor ra F move along highways ys like a bicycle until it x t Yli A r the s 's trenches trench then en to swing 1 i t r 1 L has reached and d pass pasted passed d zig right h over enemy enemy's s s r and bombard them from behind An Aft alt alter alternative r K l aro around broadside to them I I t t is to stop directly over the trench and project live 1 1 Wi I I 1 e manoeuvre native steam down u upon n the men below Mr Gernsback says horsepower horse horse- I. I 1 x 4 I r ll f y K 1 le this tractor at twenty miles an hour irl f Jt W. ml t tover would be ample to move flit am power tt i J jo f N l 4 j o P rte ground 7 t over The any gr tentacle is designed t to o P put ut warships ou out t o of f business 1 t k JI r. r 4 a j r tt k f. f i S f l their th kr tt k kt 1 tA 1 tt ti enough to paralyze crews shocks them powerful 1 theme a by Y giving g rr 11 J I y and d' d their th finery mery I It t is a sma small II torpedo t torpe d 0 atta attached ched to a fi fine ne com coin composite tl r. r elf an stop t which it itis is steered ste red by electricity elec and having hang l 1 1 cl 1 t tw 0 1 q osite wire abl which rough ro Jt V K w 2 sucker k uA its n nose se b by which I it atta attaches ch itself If to O th the e h hull u II of f a d b- b l 1 i t r magnetic tIc suc magn fa r c W 1 S tt is through LYE ii L r electric current IS sent i warship hi Havin Ravin r one this a powerful j t i j fr from which it rt was I launched hed Thus This s current t 1 f. tr Z r hT hi W b the th th s slop ship om its cable bl er ca e by y Q P. P f fv r 1 r o.- o. n V all II its motors and an d paralyzes I all ate II the themen h F 1 f destroys d a para 1 It electr electrifies e I fies es the th e ip IP 1 t r t men aboard It t least this is IS what it would do if a short circuit in il inthe III f 1 t r t ft W q W f fit the water could prevented i I J On this page I ouis uis' BIed Biedermann has tried to to show the sort of battle t. t lt that would follo the meeting of a gyro-cruiser gyro and a trench tractor I i intentionally exaggerated the dimensions of the 1 lJ r To do this he e Iras has e F latter as designed d by Mr Gernsback who planned it only for trench t wry fighting lighting But as the machine exists as yet only in in imagination Mr Bied Biedermann has ha ha l perfect right to imagine Mr Gernsback's erns s engine of r d JI r. r dimensions he has given it Both this an and ft r c to toe war magnified t to o Jie e colossal r J. J lI however h drawn dr from fr om their t h elf inventors inventors' desis d. d eSI 4 fi tf f td the gyro cruiser are ar e r j il Y i t Y i i S Mr Lyon on calls his engine an m electric gyro cruiser It is rs an l i armored fort on two gigantic wheels steadied by a huge gyroscope It is isto iI feet long s-r s to to be feet high 3 f and to weigh tons and is twelve 17 inch 17 planned Tanned to mount in t 5 z t in six turrets The power V wheel is feet in diameter with a bevelled rim of armor plate Its inventor pictures it crashing across hills and val valleys leys at train express speed ignoring roads and avoiding E If p f t y e i e eY N Y i 4 r 5 r 4 F rc z S 4 Ar i 1 5 F t 1 juti i. i iy f d f 1 y 1 1 17 I z |
