| Show aek ANTIDOTE f OR inventors strive for means to td rid bid sea of menace to shipping EARLY ACTION IN AMERICA thousands of letters received by boards of inventions in england and united states but few practical ideas advanced I 1 london odilon th llie new york heralds n oval correspondent corn pendent writes A development of the hie war which will recoil receive e special attention from tho the historian Is clia which Is connected with lie mobilizing of inventions for acht ing purposes in ili germany nolence was tf n tile of destree ion flon before hostilities began and till nil till resources ii of technical knowledge were uro bro brought igat to bear for the purpose or of devising in nil new methods of killing it wag the use hj by tin tilt hunh of poison gas and sti oglar contrivances which awak caid tho abiles to in the necessity for mobilizing inventions tin and tile tho linnal native enterprise of thoughtful men and painstaking investigators As AH it i result resul t there hero were cig ablis lied in france fin and I 1 england bonida of invention connected with tile ho naval I 1 tind military for the elaml notion anti of such buell plans und proposals ns as seemed helmed to be of value ily by thise measures tile lie now flow of invention was directed to 0 o channels clinn nela from froin which hecl it insl limped might issue a provision of nom new weli pons and now new kinds of munitions to the forc forces esby by land hid son sen early action by america with really forethought america while v lillo yet ct nt lit pence provided tier own bureau of invention she should be therefore more rendy ready to util a her til inventive genius now at she has falls become a lit in the it Is comparatively comparative v easy to ond find men of expert judgment t to inquire into or advise upon the feasibility of schemes tind proposals ronny ol 0 which tire only rough lievin but bul may inny contain tile the gerin of improvements but what Is 19 less simple Is to detach and 11 detail the iho right light wild kind of officers from aroln the naval and military services to carry tit work of experiment and investigation to a point of usefulness ness 9 just nt at present lite attention of inventors la Is directed particularly toward undine finding tit an antidote for the submarine it Is anid that lint tho consulting board of tit the united states navy nav received in one k moro more than two thousand letters ench containing what tile writer believed to ho n solution of the etilmon rine menace crince in how many letters the british board of inventions lias haa received on tills subject liaa has not been made public and yet iet it Is manifest ninni fest that no device lins liaa been discovered lite ilie practical application ot which Is tin nn assured success tile the explanation of tills unsatisfactory state rif df acma seeing to rest mainly in ill tho the inability of the inventor to grasp rightly factors in tile problem tile obstacle to effective dealing with the U bont boat Is its invisibility its quality of submersion for it 11 considerable length of time during which it can travel long g dI distances under water and chango Us its tie position without discovery by the watchers on oil tho the surface it Is truo atrue that it must como come up tit nt times to t re rc its electric or to give its ita crew fresh air it must more often put its periscope above water and tile tho circumstances in ili which its tit nt tack nek Is 14 made may oblige it to emerge for the purpose of bringing its gun into action the real neal So solution rution in ili these conditions it may fully be treated as aa it surface boot bont atilt and proposals for dealing with it whether front from tho the air or the sen sell have already attained a high degree of clency again where tile U bont la Is forced to operate or to reach the acone of its activity through narrow clinn nels or constricted waters ill tho value of nets and mines ns as it deterrent lias ailts ns its official records show been proved up tip to n point nevertheless to overcome the submarine In it itt Is not sufficient su to be ablo able to obstruct its lins passage sage in corinth certain limited areas or merely to be prepared to dent deal with etli it hiring during its ita brief intervals of something more la Is wanted I 1 than tills tile roul solution of tile the problem cm will depend upon the ability of discovering its whereabouts under voter muter imd and making that discovery elthe r on oil ilia atio surface or in the ner tills thim ls Is the fruitful flold for invests In vesti aution and tills Is IN clearly tile direction indicated to inventors dinv inv nit as the alii cinq along which to lovoto their thought and study if they th tire seeking till nn antidote to the peral the eions almi set up not only narrows the scope for suggestion hut but the number of persons whose equipment by ing find exper experience lence la is likely to fit thein for tile tusk in ili order to save front from nn an inundation of 0 useless or nr schemes it la is s surely the while of tile various lonardi to issue to would IP be correspondents sonic somo rules by tile latter might bo be guided in making suggestions much disappointment would thereby be prevented and much waste of fline all and trouble |
