Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-12-06
PRESENT EUROPEAN CON
FLICT BRINGS IT INTO
BIG PLAY.
GUIDE FROM THE SHORE
Torpedo Can BE Directed by the
Waves at Distance of
Many Miles,
Lny l. b. nIcKINsONl

Every reader is more or l'0a IA
miilar with the development OF wire
less" but probably only hnlltu
number realize it's great value IN mod
crn warfare. Scientists closely guard
every discovery and prevent llS pup
licatiou before certain dosrc of per
fcctiou Is reached. with clcclriDal
appliances this statement applies
more torcefully
TO direct a torpedo or guide a boat
from shore Is comparatively easy, pu'
by wireless waves stlll greater ltats
can be performed II is possible 10
transmit electrical power trom "
power plant in Tulsa to Warshlp IN
the Atlantic without the aid Of wires
Not only this, but use that power IN
exploding the magazines on board the
ship of an enemy To the uulplIldltu
this statement will appear ridiculous.
II will seem like the early history
OF the wire telegraph or the tele-
phone. Every reader knows now
Alexander Graham Ben, inventor Of
the telephone, was laughed at because
he proposed to send human intelh-
genoe over a common wire,
How Its Done.
Bv the use Of a singing arc'-sim-
liar to the tuning fork used by mu-
sicians-it is not only easy but quite
simple to transmit immense potential
electric power through space Dy
"wireless' waves. When the singing
arc at a given power plant IS NlOrat-
ing in unison, or in tune with us
affinity on board ship in midocean,
the power passes by means Of ether
waves, or Wbratory motion, travelling
at the rate OF lS6, 400 miles per see
ond Natural law simply supplants
the artificial means used today, the
wire.
To blow up a ship SO miles away
hy wireless means electrical power
transmitted-is an easy matter. Every
schoolboy understands why the sun b
rays set fire to piece of paper when
focused by aid of the glass, and every
student of exact science knows just
how power can be transmitted wire
lesSly using the proper appliances
The electric rays are not different
from the suns rays, hence the focus
Is secured by the aid Of the sngins
arc, as we term it.
Ancicnts Knew IL.
The ancients knew more about cleo
tricity and its manifold uses than We
of today have ever dreamed Of Mar
Gus Graecus and Albert AliX histori-
ans of ancient Greece, give us an ideS
of their achievements. The average
student knows nothing of such his
tory. What we Of today call high OK
plosivos" would have been mere toy
by the anclents. For more than thirty
thousand years before the Christian
era they employed wireless waves to
do their bidding The coming gcner-
aGons the next, probably - will
laugh at the system in vogue today.
] predict ere long we will be making
hourly suilings between New York
and San Francisco by airshlps max
ing the distance in about fifteen
hours This is not only possible, but
feasible
Warfare, as we know it today, will
be supplanted by system Of
slaughter and the power used will be
electrical energy transmitted on ether
WaVes-a superior conductor to the
crude wire-and human life will be
taken by terrific explosions electric
ity being used. Property losses will
be incalculable and millions of lives
lost If war is ever conducted under
such a system as | foresee or made
possible by this great natural agency
that man is about ready to harness
Up.
Thought Rules Men.
Thought waves are still more deadly
than wireless waves. Thought is the
greatest power in the world-if prop
erly directed Thought and ideas rule
TIE world Of men. Electricity is only
Q factor TO this all-important subject.
What a drop Of water was to the dis
covery of steam power, the minute
particle we call an ion, or electron-
molecule Of electriCity-is to the
future development by man in this
A1 Ng ,a4t ,1 lnt Il.
transmission of heat, light, power and
human intelligence is at hand. 1t is
no longer an experiment. but a real
ity. 1t is easy to whisper across the
Atlantic or navigate the air by wire
less.