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Show 1 GREAT WAR INVENTIONS MADE Marconi Reviews Scientific Discoveries Most All Minor Ones on Applications of Previous Knowledge. BIG LESSON OF EUROPE Organization, Transportation on a Large Scale and Handling Handl-ing of Big Jobs Overnight. Home. Aug. 10. (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) No notable scientific discoveries or inventions are growing out of the great war", In the opinion of William Marconi, the wireless inventor. In an interview inter-view with a correspondent of The Associated Press he said: "As for war Inventions, on the whole there have been no great ones that occur to me. Most of them have been minor ones, or applications of knowledge knowl-edge previously at our disposal, as in the case of poison gases, if these may be named at all. In my own field there has fieen some advance-in advance-in practical wireless by which we are now able to direct tho artillery ui u ui a Din ji uv si -,110.10 iiuiii an aui u- plane, which has been made possible possi-ble largely through the big improvements improve-ments in aircraft. Big Lesson of Europe. "The big lesson in Europe has been one of organization, of the physical handling of big material ma-terial problems by the armies. I doubt if any one before this war ever realized the meaning and value of railroad transportation on a large scale, as it Is practiced in the United States. Europe, too, has learned how to do big industrial jobs overnight, to assemble raw materials and turn out needed factory products. 'T refuse to play the prophet role, so I would rather not say how many of these war products will be of use to us when peace comes." Since the beginning of the war Mr. Marconi has had unusual opportunities opportuni-ties for observing the practical side of the "war, having early put his scientific knowledge at the service of his country. As a senator of the kingdom king-dom he has visited England, Belgium, France and other countries, and introduced in-troduced Industrial and shipping reforms. re-forms. In his capacity as military officer he has como into close relation rela-tion with army and navy and given' the benefit of his science and business organization knowledge to munition factories. He has also perfected the army and navy wireless systems and Ib at present working on a signal system, which, it Is expected, will render far more difficult submarine wnrfare throughthe readier location and signalling of the -presence of' such craft. The details of this he was unable to furnish because of its Immediate military importance. "Lot me Bay," said Mr. Morconi, "that one of the personal inconveniences inconveni-ences of this war is that I cannot continue con-tinue my visits to the United States. I began my visits in 1899, when your people so warmly welcomed and helped me. Since then I have been there exactly forty times, which is perhaps a- record." United States Little to Fear. Incidentally the inventor referred to the position of the United States. "l uon 1 uuuk: uio unitea siaies snouia ever fear any fatal, disastrous invasion," inva-sion," he said. "Her seas protect her too well. She 1b too mighty a country in population and force to bo ever conquered. I doubt if, with reasonable precaution, oven her coasts could be injured or landed upon4 The experience of this war has hown how easy it is to protect a coast by submarines, sub-marines, even when the invader is a near neighbor. It is a rule that will work both ways. The United States would have vast difficulties in landing land-ing forces on foreign territory, say that of Europe. Neither England nor Germany have been able to get at each other, though relatively clOBe." As to the prospects of peace in Europe, Mr. Marconi said: "There are many people here who believe the war, that Is actual hostilities, will be over by winter. Of course, this will not mean, disbanding the armies. Unless the Germu.a have manngel to fool the world on their population statistics, they muBt give in for lack of men and food to feed their people. Much Energy Wasted. "To me tho saddest fact about this war, is that so much energy has been used up which might have gone to a better purpose. I fear, too, as must every thinking man In Europe, that this may not be Europe's last great war during this half century. It may have to be fought all over again within with-in another thirty years, unless there is some way found at preventing future fu-ture wars, of settling disputed in terests otherwise "I do not think Italy will have any serious trouble when the war is over. While she has suffered severely because be-cause of freight rates, she has surprised sur-prised all of her European neighbors withlier economic resistance and with the products of her factories. She furnished Russia with hundreds of thousands of rifles and millions of cartridges recently, and she Is sending other material to France. She is also manufacturing most of her own big guns, her heavy cannon, her machine ma-chine guns. Italy Well Organized. "Despite the fact that we occupy the soil of ancient Rome, we are a new country politically and commercially commer-cially and recent events have proved our mettle. I doubt if any country is hotter organized from an engineering engineer-ing and transportation point of view than ours. When the war is over Italy will go to work to build a larger merchant marine and she will develop her water power for more and cheaper electricity." Concluding, the inventor pointed out that this is the first great war in which women have been so generally spread. "In early times we had sometimes entire- countries where men, women and children were destroyed by famines fam-ines and epidemics in war times. In our own days the progress of science,, of hygiene, has increased population and made impossible these old methods of destruction. War still remains, as the present conflict Iiiuict, aim .is i uiuia iei i iuic meaub of destruction than In the past, with the striking difference, however, that it destroys men and not the women." oo |