Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-16
THE WARS OF THE FUTURE.
WREl Ess TEL EGRAPHY OPENS UP A NEW FIELD OF USEFULNESS FOR 7
AERIAL NAVIGATION.

service, but also to instruct those whose
business it is to use the balloons ana to
facilitate the employment OF balloons
generally in time of warfare.
A LONG SEARCH.
In spite of all these efforts. however,
the nations of Europe nave long been at
a practical standstill In regard to this
science. Balloons of new shapes nave
been made, it is true, and some OF them
have shown improvement over their pre-
made, some Of them of the greatest ad-
vantage, but, despite this, the device
that would make the war balloon de-
!structive and practical under al. condi-
tons has not been discovered. In each
case something has been wanting to
make the device a perfect one. .5
1t is now believed. however, that this
great problem in warfare is about to be
solved and that the solution is to come
through the agency of that much her.
aided and extremely mysterious science,
wireless biography. The man who
| claims to have this century old puzzle
and who is only waiting the opportunity
to put his theory into practice IS william
| A. Eddy. the American inventor, whose
experience in kite flying has proved OF
such incalculable advantage to the scien-
tific world. -,
be the easiest thing in the world to ap-
ply wireless biography in the work OF
IOTODDluR cApiOSlSCS AASo
towns from p~assengerless war balloons.
In the wireless biography the signals in
yolye only the clicking of an ordinary
Morse sounder and he insists that sucn a
click would spring a dellcately ADJUSTED
catch, which in turn would operate to
release a stronger spring that would
:. drop the heavily explosive bomb from the
balloon. This dismissal could be arrang-
ed to occur at any distance within from
SO to As miles at sea but at a much snort
- h0yyo h md n E
While it is true that the exact distance
lmade in transmitting Marcograms over
the earth is as yet undetermined, n
were sent from Blue Hill observatory tc
Boston a short me g Dy means o,
kites at Blue Hill, the receiving station
being at Harvard college. Cambridge, anc
the distance about 10 miles. On the oc.
l~casion Of these experiments 1t was foune
that many of the. signals were made un'
li%ntelligible by trolley sparks. which wer'
nositively traced as the disturbing caus
linear Cambridge, and it is possible tina
Iother disturbances might have beel
made by other sparks many miles away
EASILY MANAGED.
Mr.. Eddy has made a most careful In
lvestigation of his theory before publish
ling it to the world n ne firmly peiieve
THAT not only would the bombs be dis
lcharged by the Marconi key on land. bu
they would probably be discharged to
great distance on the ocean. While 1t J
true that q ~passengerless balloon Woul
drop its bomb blindly. yet it must be re
membered that so or 60 fire balloons
paper, even when of large diameter, coz
lbut little money, and that many OF cne1
Icould b Inflated and sent abort at on
time by a besieging force.
The average altitude and distance
these balloons could then be measure
INSTANTLY at any time by the use OF
Ikabulated quadrant with q short ba<
line at the earth and W angles, or by
range finder.
Mr.. Eddy has not the ~slightest doul
but that The pressure of the Marconi ke
would drop the bombs al at the san
thine. In using them they would be Col
I, timed on the windward side of a besiegt
force and the starting point or the ba
loon would be such as - them