The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1895-12-27
INVENTION THE BULWARK.
In Case Of a War With Any foreign
Country.
FLEETS MAY BE EASILY WRECKED
And water Made an 1nvincibic Agent OF
Destruction Says He WIN Adam
don All Eisc.


WIZ" war upon us We wouiu ho' oe
'ons IN hhu'ns the uestroyers'
30 spoke ihohas a. Edison IN MS lae-
of"'otY IN Lewc'lyh PARK yesterday says
'.,'u"S new YORK journal
iie was Npiyhs 10 the question: 10
you pelieVe American inventors In the
event of war with England would he able
to supplv some now angina nj c,>str,,ction
~, -, 80 '''. y. .-.Y..,..-
Ni'' "ouiu overcome inc tremendous un-
vantages which the English seems to pos
M, -. ~ 80 " .', No. ,, ,,.,.
NJ Sii'o'"-i"Vc" p-"o-ose" nv" ""'
the smudse Of the laboratory thick upon
him who answered SO promptly is the
80 -, IN -. -, .,I,, u,,,,,,
p'" "o"Ne All oI"cVS' perhaps WIZ "'"'u
be called ON by his country In the houf
of need. And he "a confident that implo-
ments rf war un,snown TO ,i,e o,,bt,rs OF
-,
'odaN' possessing the most terr'le &c
stroying power, can be supplied in an
..t, MA - 49,, 49,, ,,,s =,
"ouu iep"ur pu, 'ne impetus u
war 10 brlng torth such inventive genus
as would astound the world As stands
tol,, ha,,,,, 49,, ~, - y 1870.
WI ''i'N '.v'' MOI oe io"ss'''
hahuluI oil men cou'd sweep away an
army. The destructive mower Is found
in eloctricitv
"u.a,
w ater can be made more effective than
bullets For instance. ir an engagement
should tnko ,,locc or n fc,, hr assa,ico
nom, p, r,,,,,,,,',r ,
80 '"'''i'"h S'io"in' an mat would
he needed would be a dynamo ana II
n,,, 49,, - WV W ""'"o' one Tor
NV ''O'V an" oHV ior general assistant
tuIte men AL told They could charge
I,nI water win 500 volts, and 1t wou.d
11mm'ep everything nNins before 1t away
hhe onAH: IL would simply be a question
&i nov lar the water could be forced.
ane ,nrce mon could hold IL position
l1ei' H&alh, n city could he sur
l,ounued Win cables that would deal
uoath 10 All who should attempt 10 cross
tueih' Ih'y could be so successfully COM
ceAled mat none would know until the
work had been begun
Another idea that suggests itself as
into the invading force. You could take
chains OF whatever length was desired
ana attach one end to the wires OF the
in the cannon with A. lnsht or heavy
load ns desir.l and fired into ,hc ranits
Of the approaching enemy. You could
send death To every liviug ,hIn,y u,ithiu
reach. and keep the air filled with chains
like rtrot SNAKES 1,bo,n a, i,i ii,,'is
Of other possibilities hat wo pG p snsrcst
themselves when nuco y,., ,.ait,,d -,
We w"rn TorS ,n co ot,,o W. neni'"oo 'h''
81 do nor h.iio," MN Wal I'm, ,.,,....
this DISPUTE No viii moi ~ NJ '' n,'1,N
nth .
of honorahl" s.,iicro,,t " .dm, h ir;'n,'
T., ' Is n"iV ,y',iiSiW " gone Iheh
!sho E '",,' 700" ,,',, TO nersSm. ,,..,,
80 Su' ms ~ Ii"acnt II great advantage
% , .S ng sen, continued the Wizard
nuu am eGnild1nt that we can supply
S ,.r,,it5.r, @ tSs NAV VIII sweep their
"',TS ii'n III" sea, me power is al
lttny at our command. Dynamite and
7lhtr hlgh explosives furnished that 1t
Is simply H;.ia question OF how to place it
= believe mat the submarine boats
now on tiinl by various nations can he
SO improved that they will be irresistible
when bent on ,doslructicn., VITA prop
cry compressed air | think # would be
possible for such boat to remain under
water FOR days at a time AT present
You say hey ar" too slow to be effective
II uol''v" nat n - "cd e tHen,v knutS
can he secured beneath the water hy mo-
per construction md the rrhi Kind If
plodci directly beneath an ironclnd 1r
any size "a strength viii send hr down
II y IS nrcd anywhere in her lmmrdla.e
Vicinity II viii shake her plate - thnt
aho WIN leak. Several such shocks wonli
tell the story. Their torpedo nets are NOT
effective against the submarine boat, and
thluk tho mysterious thing nm .ICr the
sea X one of the great engines of. the
future.
at is. necessary. OF course. that such
mine she viii hAvo TO seuttle away nj "A
good Cnlt to save herself from her own
work. We have never had ocoaslon to
build "A submarine boat ana where there
IL no demand for thinl men do not
give it their hest ihorght Make The o..
casicn, and you will md an American 10
"Our civil war was n half-honrtcd af-
fair We were lighting ngaii st ourselves
Eut God said tho Wizard. rising with
81 lining '.'es and outstrctched hand. "how
dlfforent' II would be with a forolun
rover "''
could Now York be saved from de
strucaon by warshps?" was asked
81 believe that the nerihl torpedo fur