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Show I I Rubber Armor Platel I If tin present war has proved any-I any-I thing It has provi d the Inadequacy of I the protection afforded by armor plate 'covering the underwater vital parts j of a ship The armor does not extend j sulllclently far below the water line , to assure complete protection when j the vessel Is rolling, and In this re-! re-! spec! ii suggestion put torward hy a writer In Popular Science Sittings j might he worth serious consideration j Describing an experiment made in I Slip on the recoiling strength of rub hoi, he says that a piece of rubber I two Inches thick and a foot square was placed under a steam hummer 'and a six Inch round shot was plai e.l oi ll. The hammer tell with trcinen dons foicc and broke Hie shot , piece:-. Hie rubier icinainlng clastic i ni.it unimpaired. Uesiills from great J explosive force on lubber flooring and J hnfli is have shown that beyond tuslng ' by heat the rubber remained iinin I Jured. so apparently rubber would make a ship more shot proof than ar n or plate |