Show WAR DEVELOPS WEIRD wein T T D SCHEME SC 97 ca one dinv inv inventor antor would snatch enemy rifles by means of magnets FLEA SHELL IS OFFERED M k ED then there Is the scissors plane the tallyho ho cannon and the moon veil aeronautics favored by inventors 1 3 london pushing the war on Is the latest in test popular hobby its a great amusement perhaps you have a tame balloon to sn snatch itch the rifles from the hands bonds by means of suR suspended magnets or m maybe abbe a few spare sp a r C snakes to hurl into the trenches tren dies by pneumatic propulsion or perhaps a shell with a man inside it to steer it fit at the target if so pack in brown paper and dispatch to inventions department part ment british ministry Min itry of munitions some months later you will receive a 1 polite notification informing vou IOU that your invention Is receiving their collective and earnest attention 11 meanwhile your competitors have supplied applied suggestions for A shell to contain leas fleas or other vermin inoculated with dis disease ne the spraying of cement over soldiers BO as is to petrify them the throwing of live wire afre cables carrying a high voltage among advancing bodies of infantry by means of rockets germany should ho be attacked in one ease case by making a tube all the way and in another by employing trained to fly to essen and pick out the mortar from krupps chimneys one inventor proposes a machine or of the nature of a lawn own mower as fayge as a tank to make mincemeat of them the scissors plane a new idea the clouds are arc to be frozen artificially and guns mounted on them heavy guns are to be suspended from captive balloons the moon is to be covered with a big black balloon airplanes airplane are to be armed with scissors or scythes like charlot cli ariot or to trail bombs behind them on a long tord cord heat rays are to be projected for the purpose of setting zeppelins zeppelina Zepp elins on fire cre electric waves to paralyze th thi magnetos one of the most popular suggestions of all is te t attach a searchlight to an antiaircraft gun get the light on the object and shoot along the beam but unfortunately the path of a shell Is quite different from that of the ra ray of light most elaborate decoy schemes hemes Ec aai at sometimes worked out for the confusion of the enemy comprising in at least one case sham factories with chimneys and hooters lio oters complete not unnaturally aeronautics have bren been favored by the inventors many bem em to have thought that the lifting power or of hydrogen is unlimited for they have suggested armor plated balloons the transport tran port of artillery by airplane and of troops by balloon shellia and projectiles have received not it 11 little attention proposals proposal include a sin 11 containing gravel to lay a pathway ver iver mud another containing irritant powder or sticky substance to hamper machine guns gulls and another for holding li many thousand feet of wire weights and a clock motor many inventors of a device requiring a knowledge of ballistics betray no knowledge that such a science exists by one scheme two guns tire to be fired simultaneously the shot being connected by a chain to which bombs and incendiary devices etc are arc to be attached it ft Is clear that variations in powder or differences in wear would make it impossible to predict which direction the device would woud take then there Is the relay shell shelf arother another favorite subject macian ivalay unsound Is the relay shell a shell acting as a small gun discharged in r nid ld air and expelling a small inner shell the object being to obtain pin on increased range the fact Is that it shell in eglie does not point albect ly along its tr trajectory but makes in an f Veer talu angle with it so that ac curacy racy of alm aim would be impossible in the group of inventions coming under the lie head of motive power the majority are of tile overbalancing over balancing wheel type which dates from tile the 1 thirteenth century power is to be obtained from other scheme of people walking about floors and up lip and down stairs PoS passenger lifts are to ile he wed used ns is power hammers liall imers and power li to be generated from the flow of ruin rain water front from the rooms of houses suggestions are arc also frequently received in connection with colored searchlights the most remarkable proposition 0 of all in connection wit with it searchlights id perhaps that of a black beam bhatt whatever vcr that may mean for obscuring the moon many inventors are arc absolutely impervious to argument or explanation and ire are always dissatisfied with the treatment they receive in this till respect they contrast unfavorably with a foreigner who submitted an engine which would not lot work and concluded the correspondence with than i i and the admission 0 n that tl la t lie ile was completely cured of til the c i idea d e ll 11 I 1 |