Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-15
NOVEL INVENTIONS
Of the Present Day to Be Used
In War.
HORSES, FLYING ARSENALS,
Alr-Guns, SmOkOlsss Powder, Air-ShIps, Bi.
cycles, Pneumatic Dynamite Gun, Won.
deriul 0ronades That Destroy
Without Striking.
HORSES, FLYING ARSENALS,
~ Uap.. rnllp neaae. .. 5. Army.


With what implements of war will the
modern soldier be- armcdl In olden days,
the warrior WIS content with spear aud
shield The wars Of this republic have
been fought on land, with cannon
small arms and side arms; on sea, with
heavy ordnance and cutluss or boarding
pike. When Gushing blew up the confed-
crate war Yessal. he natlonalized the
submarine methods of wnrtare-bu II IL
safe 10 say that the conflicts of the world
have been carried on with heavy ordnance,
small-arms ordnance, portable arms OF pro-
lection, or, more remotely, with offensive
weapons OF steel in hand-tO hand engage
ments. The world moves, however; this
Is an age of progress marked, IN peace,
by telephone, electrical agents anI their
adiuncts. The progress in novel war In.
VenhOns rs no less marked. Exactly what
the military gladiatnrs Of the twenty-iirst
century will carry when they 20 forth 20
war, no man can tell. Invention and i'm
provemeni In the art Of war has more
than kept pace with the agents for com
municatiOn, transportation and utility
that have borne no apparent relation TO
the war god Mars.
Let as see what some Of these inven-
lions are and, as we scan the list, doubt
whether or not Frank d. Stockton. Jules
Verne and the other writer's Of that ilk
We're not prophets.
Gen. Grant probably never heard of
aluminium OF Of paper ns a mnteiial
wherefrom To make gun-barrcls. Lieut..
Derby-"John Phoenix -didn't know
that horses would ever have automatic
firearms cinched between their front
legs; whOop-shells and fireworks were
suggestive only of grOtesque Celestals o
quarter Of century ago; bicycles were
not used as ndjuncts of an army when
Abraham IincOll was nude president
the expression war dogs" Ia our grand
fathers time. referred 10 veterans not
CANNES; aiIeships meant balloons; chlOrO-
form bombs We're unheard Of; gun pow
der was not smokciess. air guns were
Juvenile toys; armOr and shields were
found only in arr galleries side by side
with stuffed mumnies. finOke was
never purppsely created In the battla
Fields as a mask for tactical disposition
Of troops; mieTophones and Photographic
apparatus were used only In the labora-
Invention OF DIR. Calling and BENJAMIN
Hotchkiss, precursors of the mitrnilleuse,
We're in embryo when Fort Sumter was
fired on.
The devices for the prosecution, or ter.
minntion. Of war include the appliances
named In die preceding paragraph. and
also include human rockets. liquid ex-
plOsiycs, lndia-rubber boot heels, alumni,
MUM shields or body protectors, electric
motors automatic ordnance, Eelf-aenng
recON guns, bullet proof mattresses, pnen
matte gun carriages. carrier pigeons and
disappearing cannon. Even SkObelen ad-
rised tho use Of dogs as aids 70 sentneis.
The French, like our North American In
dams. have long known the value Of ca.
mines for reconnaissance Or surprise tac-
ties. and dogs are now regularly grained