Show IMPROVED ARMOR the inventive ingenuity of man never to be so alert as when devising acme means of advanced warfare such IBS a destroyer of increased power or 1 l means of more secure defense when nickel steel was brought in sta existence and rolled into plates which were placed upon the sides of our men af pf f wat wai it was thought to make thern them as nearly impregnable as possible and ardly they have withstood the tests tol bubly well at least none of our ships was lost or even ean seriously injured during the war with spain although some of thern them were struck many times with ahot and shell from high power guns laut such armor is now relegated to second place when considered in connection with the new ar anor tests of have lately been made by the united states government it is pronounced pronoun ed practically perfect the plates Vl atee will not crack and break up like the ahe ther other o shot that will partially penetrate ate them even from close range merely indenting or imbedding bedding im themselves tind aind imparting no injury to the sur round inrig A recent number nimber ni of th bhe e new york journal vurna contains con baina an account lac count of the tests from which it appears chait the st plate pl ate fired at was 8 f let feet wide by 10 feet fedt long and 12 inches thick the ns used for firing carried a 12 inch projectile to the larg largest esit size used an the navy the shell weighed orinda oi inda ft was discharged at a velocity ty of 1833 1 feet per second and struck the armor plate with a force of sons ons the shell penetrated to ia a depth sf 8 inches and then broke up in n the second plate pla te tested the same XV le projectile was used 12 inches but evelo city was increased to 2022 feet fer second with ta a striking energy of tons tong the shell passed through ake armor and broke up but there ere no aracka in the plate the third te tested was bit bilt 11 inches thick again in a 12 inah shell was used and when en striking arh an ampa ct of ns ana just jit st barely passed through brough t the ate band and broke up some orf a the pieces in front fi ont of the plate st still ill no cracks feared eared other shots were fired bilth similar results of course the plates will soon become obsolete and so will the guns which are unable to pierce the Kruppi zed armor armoire and these will then hive to be in turn set aside in favor of something more powerful then it is fair clr to e iss s sume some still tougher coating for the ships will be devised and so on ad infinitum before the extreme klimpt of f human ingenuity hia ha i 4 been reached perhaps there will ie de a new naw condition of things ushered in one in which neither guns nor armor wim will be required but all differences between nations be settled without bloodshed or devastation such is the natural and dinv inv sable sequel si quel |