The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08
A Light to Flood the Floor of the
Ocean and a Boat to Explore the
Same Depths.
IT READS LIKE A FAIRY TALE
GIUSEPPE PINO TALKS ENTHUsI-
AsTICALLY OF HIS DISCOVERIES.
Results for Good of Mankind that MAY
Come from Them-weaIth In
told Laid Bare.

Correspondence Of the Indianapolis Journal.
GENOA, Jan. 0.-"After the torpedo-the
destroyer, after the submarine boat-the
MICROSCOPE. making torpedoes, destroyers,
submarine mines and ditto boats useless"
said Giuseppe Pine. the inventor OF the
apparatus capable OF flooding the floor of
che ocean with daylight (or its equivalent.)
The microscope" he continued, (which
has had full trial by the Italian Naval
ONCE and a company of large capitalists
and which. two weeks from now, will be
tried at Kiel, under the eyes OF the Kaiser
the microscope is light-giver that pen
etrates water to unusual depth. The
apparatus used by the government experts
on the coast OF Genoa covered 1900 square
feet OF ocean bed, and the light was so
brilliant that everything contained within
the limits OF the fluid territory was percep-
tible to the naked eye-everything, whether
stationary. on the floor OF the sea or float
ing between that and the surface of the
water. With the aid OF this light, fishes
and worms the size OF pinhead were uilo-
tcgraphed. as well as beams, sunken craft
and pieces OF glass and rubbish carried
out there by the tide.
and cheap affair. the government, quite
naturally. distrusted my assurances; had
% stand all the cost, and am but a poor
civil engineer. The apparatus could be ten
times, or 100 times. enlarged IL necessary,
while its usefulness increases in proportion,
vet the expense would be tri1ing consider
Ing the results to be obtained.
''The thought that gave the first impetus
20 this invention was the hope of making
the ocean. its highways and byway. per-
fectly safe. No more shipwrecks on ac-
count Of rocks. floating wreckage and COL
lisions. at least. The captain and navigator
Of the future will be master Of the waters
he sails. Neptune cannot play tricks on
him with rocks, sand banks, fats, shallow
water. wreckage and what-not, for the
lookout can easily detect such by the aid
Of the MICROSCOPE. At the same time the
engineer Will be able at all times to in
bpecs the bottom OF his boat.
ITS EFFECT IN WAR.
After the foregoing &c IL almost unnec-
sssary 70 refer to the microscopes infiu-
snce on naval warfare. Torpedoes. sub
marine mines and smaller boats were in
vented 10 approach the enemy by stealth
the MICROSCOPE II more powerful than 10000
searchlishts. and, besides. turns the water
under and about the ship. for almost any
desired distance. into a flood of light to
such an extent that even a herring could
not approach ships bottom or sides within
5000 feet without captain and lookout see
ing II.
But. personally. lay less stress upon
the microscopes relation to warfare than
H.
abolished sooner or later. the world now
adays pins its hope to peace and progress.
above all. my inventions like Marconis,
will bring the nations nearer together, for
the MICROSCOPE removes. to a large extent,
the present impediments to cable laying
and shipping.
National economists have expressed the
fear that, some day or other, the world
might perish on account of lack of food and
coal. as a result OF overpopulation. But the
world need not die IL the food and fuel
treasures buried under the waters are
placed at its disposal. as the hydroscope
proposes to DO. / have made about two
hundred descents to the bottom of the
ocean I'm my submarine working boat-of
which later on-and. assure you, our fish,
cry commissioners and natural scientists
have not the slightest idea of the amount
Of fish In existence. Myself and compan-
ions have brought up from the bottom of
the ocean over fifty kinds of eatable sea-
food totally unknown to present-day books.
aquariums and professional fishermen. yerv
frequently the fiocks of fish surrounding us
ut great depths were so dense as to obscure
the outlook from the illuminated windows.
THE MICROSCOPE discovers new seafood.
the submarine boat lifts the treasures and
hungry millions can be satisfied at a trifiins
cost. But there II more than fish In the
sea- discovered coal mines at the ocean
bottom that makes the properties of Baer
look like trifiing. and. mind you, such mines
are free to all: they cannot be Morga nized
for ocean highways are international, and
where waters are not international they
are national territory. upon which no mo-
nopolist can lay his hand"
THE SUBMARINE WORKING BOAT.
'"rhe submarine working boat is an
other invention of mine." continued Signor
Fino. land. like the MICROSCOPE, II has been
fully approved by the Italian naval au-
thorities- Moreover. a company for its
90 francs. fully paid. has recently been
formed"
Signor Pine handed your correspondents
the official data concerning the submarine
working boat. attested by the Rome naval
office and by the municipality OF Genoa.
Here Is the statement:
Trial OF Signor Pino's submarine work
ing boat I'm the Gulf OF Genoa. The boat
Is sixteen feet broad. thirty feet long and
cigar-shaped- In outward appearance IL
differs not from the type of submarine boat
introduced years ago Its construction is
steel, apparently one piece, like a cannon.
This makes IL possible for the ship 10
withstand any amount of pressure The
keel is fitted with wheels, facilitating
movement on dry land and on the floor
OF the ocean. The sides OF the ship are
furnished with mechanical arms and hands
worked from within These arms and hands
work like the human model. They. can bend
withdraw and stretch like mans arms
They can lift and grasp things like that OF
a mechanic with power a hundred times
intensified. With this ship Signor Pine
and his crew descended into the Gulf OF
Genoa at spot where the water Is -
feet deep. according TO the charts. The in
yentor did not know beforehand where the
trial was TO take place. nor was he aware