| Show I 1 ile ar q ft c bd joel f 1 aa LW VMS ak M af all MIKOLA IKOLA TESLA electrical scientist 4 says saps not noi armies alone but N THE science which man has spun will out ot of his brain he ha has created a populations monstrous us frankenstein which is n now ow rending him limb from limb on the battlefields be destro destroyed by y use of of europe surope but one of the fatal y M qualities qualitz I 1 s of science Is that it always progresses wireless etess currents his ets what part will it play in the next world war will the inventive intellect by then have unlooked unloosed un loosed 0 forces which compared to the 42 centimeter howitzer own torpedo deadly of today will be beas as the 42 centimeter gun Is I 1 to the two handed sword of the roman legions yes reply tho the experts the present war Is based on chemistry but future warfare will wield the enormously more gigantic power of destruction provided by electricity according toa writer in the st louis post dispatch then irwill it will not be a question of the annihilation of otar armies jf it will be one of the extermination of whole populations po pu lations it will note not ka be a matter of demolishing cities and fortresses but of wiping whole nations at one stroke from the face of the earth the scientists in fact offer us one either man must conquer tola his innate murderous instincts and cea cease from war or else in the end the human race will perish in a universal act of suicide such as hauer foretold self slain by the unspeakable agencies of destruction with which science will inevitably arm us for years gunpowder and its derivatives i atiles have ru ruled led the destinies of mankind A flash from the pestle of the scientist monk 11 roger oger bacon blew feudalism off the globe and made possible the coming of democracy gunpowder C faveto gave to the european races sway over the whole world it subjected bothem to them america asia and africa little did bacon dream of these consequences from his bis expert ment rabant with saltpeter and sulphur perhaps as little do we today realize the possibilities of the wireless current which in an instant bears the spoken spohn word from arlington to honolulu in the imagination of every scientist in the world today there Is a vision of a machine machin e with a key by means of which a wave of electricity will be flashed through the air to explode tho the bombs torpedoes cartridges and miga magazines the man who first perfects i this device will go down in history lt if any historians are left alive as a greater greated man than roger Ba confor r his Invention will make and picric acid obsolete and ana will send rifles cannon and dread to the junk heap i only one scientist so far makes a claim to have advanced some steps towards the ille perfect electric electra c mankiller man killer but that man wile other than niko nikola la testa tesla electrical wizard who has just been awarded a part of this years noble prize for physics in an interview the other day he laid down these prophesies 1 this to is thelast war in which the explosive power of chemicals will decide the Issue 2 in the next war electricity will be the force of organized slaughter the confidence with which tesla uttered these predictions Is IB based upon an invention which he be says he has just completed but elijhe the details of which heis belabor he be lafor is tor the present jealously gw guarding awarding forbear for fear they might be worked out byone odthe of the belligerents ln in the present war in case the united states were involved in war s i r i however horev er he says he be would place his device un reservedly at the disposition of the military authorities itis of course possible he said to a representative senta tive of the post dispatch sunday magazine a few days ago to produce electrical effects at a distance by means of wireless energy but the insurmountable difficulty thus far has been to aim an electric wave in one direction only with all of its force concentrated ona on tc a given target 1 I will go so far as to say that after twenty s yeam of application to the problem of t transmitting ran energy by wireless I 1 have just made a valuable A advance in this direct direction iol the stage has been reached where to an extent itis it is practicable to use this force in war and to predict such a development as will make electricity supplant cannon in battle it Is impossible to give details at this time but in a general way my invention can be used in three methods in the first place it will be possible to send an explosive body through thi theair katr an aerial torpedo flying many times faster than an aeroplane band land to direct this projectile to the spot desired where it can be exploded by wireless it will be possible to guide the projectile by wireless after lit lit has passed beyond the range of the eye and the baini alm is so accurate that it is possible to reduce the error to a few feet in a thousand miles I 1 in the second place it will be practicable with wil h athis this apparatus to produce effects at a distance which will interfere with the enemy and tend to I 1 make him ineffective in the tha third place it produce at a distance such effects of electrical tension as will jeopardize life and property the inventor declined to go into specific details saying that it is safer to be specific after the tact fact but ono one would gather from the words he be idid edid speak that he be has contrived a torpedo of the jair air flying under its own power as a torpedo swims in the water which can be steered by wireless and exploded by the same force such a projectile would bould have a range not of some twenty miles like the highest power cannon but one limited only by its own flying endurance it would be harder to hit with shell and rifle fire than an aeroplane because of its smaller size and swifter velocity and it need not be manned by a crew who would bo exposed to death at every instant such a missile aimed according to the mathematical formulas used today by gunners whose target Is beyond the range of eye and telescope could be dispatched for the destruction of a battleship long before her own guns would be able to bome come into play sate safe from the shells of the greatest ordnance it could searil start from a point miles beyond their range the batteries without the possibility of a reply the second and third methods of alch testa tesla speaks are discussed in rather cryptic language but leave the inference that he believes himself already able ansome in some degree to produce at a dis tance by wireless an electric shock similar to that produced by touching a charged wire one can thirk think of no ot other herway way in which effects perilous to life and property boulo be obtained with electricity tri city with this idea worked ou to its ultimate perfection fec tion one might fo refell such appalling events in warfare as this an entire army in its trenches Is without warning seized ditl the death agonies of a wretch in the electrical chair and to is exterminated by a silent enemy using no bullets or at a given moment every living thing in a great city is struck dead as it by lightning by means of a force unleashed hundreds of miles away by an officer who merely pulls a levier in a wireless tower tesla appears to see in the future a warfare of electrical appliances more deadly than all checan the cannon ever made he sees entire areas electrified and made untenable for any living creature 7 death and destruction will be dealt deal lout out at unheard of distances with zones of action more spacious than we now dream of there is fore shadowed a conflict in which not armies but nations may be destroyed in a single action by men armed with thunderbolts more mighty than those of abd tbd the heavens no nd wonder that tesla his own lm imagination a gi re recoiling colling in horror says 1 I 1 hope this Is the invention that will make war impossible another device tor for which inventors are seeking la is one th that atvill will be able by means of the wireless current to explode at a distance the magazines magazine of ammunition if this were perfected one man in london by pressing a button could set fire to all the explosives in the krupp factories and blow that institution into bits bite or ild he could blow blo w up all the cartridges and explosives explosives in the german arlly army or another man in berlin could with one stroke blow the english fleet out of the water with its own powder in an article in a parts paris newspaper recently marconi father of wireless telegraphy declared that such an invention would mean the abolition pt of firearms and a reversion to hand to hand fighting agh tang A dutch inventor named canzius Lanz Lan lus ziUs now in new york claims to have made such a device an italian In inventor ventoe won considerable notoriety for himself two years ago by demonstrating arf an apparatus which he declared would explode ammunition at a distan distance cd by meaks of a wireless current but he was vas shown to be a fraud A young new yorker who already has several authentic inventions to his bis credit declare de clarea he has bai perfected a method of emitting wireless au current rrene which will melt all metals within a certain radius A california inventor asserts that hn can create a name flame at a distance by means of wf wireless rele and offers to set fire to any fleet approaching approach in g the pacific coast the germans aro are reported to have used heat beat to destroy the barbed wire entanglements entangle ments of the rus RUB blons tesla belle bellaver be llaves es that the result was oata obtained aued it if at all by the projection of a name hum e produced by hydrogen gas under high pressure such aflame can readily be projected tor 10 feet which might be sufficient lelent when the trenches are closs closer enough together in such a flame barbed wire would melt like wax in all of the belligerent countries and andin in those which tear fear they ibey mai may sometime become belligerents the best brains are hard bard at world work on the problem of contriving new methods of murder more deadly and more wholesale than those now employed some of their dreams dreama of future warfare may seem fantastic but the rudo rude cannon of the turks seemed an incredible prodigy at the siege of constantinople i e in the tha fifteenth century and to the artilleryman artillerymen artillery men of our revolutionary war the ibe machine gun of today would appear an equal marvel marve L concan oncan on can scarcely doubt that it if man continues to 10 maintain his delight in war war science wilt will be at hand to supply him with yve weapons apons as advanced in murderous power over those today as the arms of today surpass the sling and stone with david introducing the artillery of his era 1 8 slew I e w the armored giant will wili human nerves ba able to endure obese c clossal borhorst horrors borro probably today they endure the shock of explosives the sound of which would have sent achilles to the madhouse 41 |
