Show IU U S TERRORS OF OE W WAR AR READY I It or TO w. w p iT y Ti or or NATION PREPARED FOR RAID I Many Ideas Developed byI by I Naval Board Declares H. H A. A Wood By J. J H. H Duckworth I 1 By RI The Th 11 c ci Ceske NEW V YORK Feb AmerIcan H.-AmerIcan 14 American I inventive genius will have some tremendous tremendous tremendous tre tre- surprises in war machinery for tor Germany in case of or war Cable dispatches from London Sa say Britons are predicting for Instance that a master antisubmarine weapon will be bo revealed re b by Thomas A invention board I talked tolla today with Hon Henry A Wise WiseWood WiseWood WiseWood Wood an nn original Inal member of at tho the United Stat States s naval consulting hoard board on how war would stimulate Yank Yankee eo Inventors inventor's Wood is chairman of ot tho conference committee on national preparedness pre pro president of ot the American Society of ot Aeronautical Engineers vice president of or tho the Aero Club of at America and member of or tho the Society of or Naval Architects and Marino Marine Engineers I With tho the appointment recently of ot the naval nl board said Wood a new era has begun beg in which tho the government for tor the tho first time has hns In Invited invited In- In rather than repelled the co cooperation cooperation co- co operation of or our creative physicists Fortunately In view of at tho the present circumstances this partnership co between the government and Inventor has hai been beon working long enough h to have laid a substantial foundation for tor tho the thoe e very great surprises I am certain the world orld will be given If It this country finds I Itself elt In a l protracted war I 1 have Information concerning these thes In Inventions In- In With few tew exceptions American In Inventors inventors In- In have heretofore devoted themselves themselves them them- selves sel exclusively to matters which do donot donot not concern warfare Usually when I an American Inventor touched fighting I machinery ho he found round the government I so backward in adopting Improvements Improvements improvements Improve Improve- I ments he has been forced to go abroad where hero peace was less les certain In order I to find an opportunity to develop his ideas Thus Sir Hiram Maxim was driven out of this country countr as was Lewis of or ortho tho the Lewis gun and as aa have nearly all other ether American n modern inventors of at war material It became the fashion of American inventors to let war machinery machinery machinery ma ma- chinery alone The Tho navy department however hoc has ha- been n far more progressive than an any other department and within the last ten en years has shown commendable enten en- en ten riso In adoption of new Ideas This has been due to the farsightedness of e NE of Americas America's foremost O ONE inventors working on war devices it is said will surprise I Ithe the world I If Ii I I I I f ri n 1 r i A f Ar y yr r TC tae's h r r a rS rv t t jj Si L 1 l orV- orV 1 tl v 7 A ELM ELMER ER A A. PERRY men like lIko Admiral Taylor Talor Admiral Fiske and others Thus with the help of ot tho na navy department Elmer A A. Sper Sperry has been enabled d to develop his marvelous gyroscopic compass and that remarkable remarkable remark remark- able series of or nautical Inventions that thal makes him tho the Edison of or the Seas Seas' Sperry has dono more moro for navigation na navigation I tion than any man who lives and ho he Is Isnow isnow now applying his genius to solving the I most of the tho remaining problems problems problems lems of ot aerial navigation nn Sperry Is so modest few know of or I his historic achievements Among SiJer Sperry's 8 Inventions arc tho the gyroscopic compass tho the automatic stabilizer or auto idiot for tor aviators o. the tho auto device devico for battleships battleships battle battle- ships tho the aerial drift Indicator his enormously powerful searchlight and Innumerable other important devices which arc are to be bo found on American battleships |