Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-11-24
SCIENCE AND WAR.
A MIGHT Telegraph for Armies.

Anew nocturnal m ilitary telegraph has
been invented by Hungarian officer and
sold to the Prussian War Department BY
means of this teleg raph. which consists of
rockets of different colors, q communica-
ton can be establis he'd between two armies
stationed at di stance of twenty miles
| from each other. 1t would enable Bazaine,
for Instance, to b ave communicated with
the comnandant of Thionville.
Each rocket represents six words, and
an order conta lining 800 words can thus be
conveyed by fifiy rockets. The key TO this
, telegraph, W hich may be altered so as to
make it unin telhgible to the enemy. con-
tsins all the words used in strategy and
tactics. The price of one OF these rockets
Is about two shillings sterling.
We give the following detailed account
OF the Satan Rocket from La France:
III. L., the distinguished civil engi.
neer and che mist, of the Rue de Lopdres,
Paris, has invented rocket which will be
a formidable engine of defense. He has
christened it the fusee Satan. We have
seen the rocket made, and we will endeavol
to describe 1t to cur readers. To the end
of an ordinary rocket is attached very
slight receptacle of tin, having exactly the
shape of conical bullet. In this recep.
tacle is arranged a chamber Allied with
/
phuret of carbon, which composition, once
lighted, gives out considerable heat A
fusee communicates from this chamber
with the top of the rocket. The tin bulle
is filed. just before being used, with petro
le1m oil. The lighted rocket rises in the
air and traverses the space necessary
to arrive over certain spot
Arrived above its object, the
rocket sets fire to the fusee, the com
position Ia the chamber of the bullet take.
light, bur is its envelope, and at the same
time fires the petroleum, which falls like
; sheet of flame and continues burning
This sheet of flame fills q space of sixteeI
to twenty-four square metres, according Il
I the size of the rocket. No l throws on,
: litre Of petroleum, No. two litres and No
!. 3 three litres. They can be thrown dis
). lance of six kilometres, and aimed will
great precision, being balanced by meani
. of long stick attached to each rocket
which maintains the elevation given to i
at the time of discharge. Some INTEREST," ,,
experiments were made with this weapon
at st. Cloud on the 10Th of last month
In less than ten minutes q considerable
space of ground was covered with sea o
hre. A committee, composed of superio
{ ofncers OF artillery, presided over the ex
pertinent, and the general at their hea,
{ was appalled, by the terrible nature of thi
= engine OF destruction.
just imagine this sea Of fire falling upoI
the Frussian masses, burning everything
{ setting light to the cartridges in the soldiers
: pouches, and to the ammunition vans o
: the artillery. Their rout would be com
= plete. The committee, in its report, ha
Y declared in It's opinion no civilized nation
: could make use OF these rockets except 70
reprlsais; and it would only be IN case @
!. the Prussisns firing upon us with petro
!. leum bombs, such as they used at Stras
: bourg. that we should be entitled to retail
> ate With the. new rocket. However thi
. may be. the Committee of National Defens
p has given the inventor a large building OF
. the Bstignolle formerly girls schooD
Z and has ordered tho immediate mauufac
ture, on large scale, of Satan rockets
;. From day to day 200 workmen will be &C
: lively employed, and within q few days W
b shall have aslfficient stock to enable US (
: repay the Prussians in their own coin, il
!. as at Strasburg, they make use of unlawfu
: weapons.