The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1915-08-20

ne Oiu RUE tnat sons OF
able men don't amount to
SH much is Ill observed In the
a. United States. A notable
~ case in point is John Hays
~ Hammond. Jr., son of the
X mining engineer and fnan-
11NA cier.
Just at present young
Hammond is getting
greater publicity than his father. II
seeHs probable that the German
smy technicians have appropriated
MS thermit shell. which will gnaw its
way through steel Orders. His wire.
iess-controlled torpedo for harbor de-
iense is about to be adopted by the
united States military services. He
VIII probably sit some day on Secre-
tery OF the Navy Daniels new board
OF inventors. with Edison and Ford
and Steinmetz. - -
lh's Is considerable progress for
even a young American to make in
nve years out Of college. Hammond
foiiows right after his dad In that un.
omcial gazette OF celebrities, Who's
VINO In America" We learn there
mat the inventor was born in San
Francisco April 10. 1888. He is there
FORE twenty-seven years old.
hammond Is a hard-bitten young
american. to use a phrase of Sir Ar.
thur Conan Doyle. Just at the tango
age. when with his fathers great
wealth he could cut a wide swath in
gay and frivolous society. he has de-
voted his days and nights to abstruse
calculations. endless blueprints and
sputtering dynamos.
His keen. lean face and spare figure
remind one much OF Henry Ford.
Both men are hard-headed, practical
Yankees. without a bit Of fuss or pa.
laver about them.
Heading further In our Who's
Who" we find that in 1912, two years
after his graduation from the Shefiield
Scientific school OF Yale university,
Mr.. Hammond was a delegate by ap-
pointment Of the United States gov.
eminent to the interchangeable con.
vention at London
He is, moreover. the treasurer and
chairman Of the committee on mem.
bership Of the Institute OF Radio-Engi.
neers. a member OF the advisory com.
mittee Of the aerodynamic laboratory
OF the Smithsonian institution, and a
member Of the Royal Society of Arts
Of London.
All this Mr. Hammond has done
with three years still to go to the
thirty mark-not by being an infant
prodigy. but by hard work. by driving
every nerve and fiber OF his wiry body
at full speed
Mr.. Hammond has an office in lower
Broadway. New York city. but has
done most Of his work in the more
inspiring and less distracting atmos.
phere OF Il beautiful little slate-roofed
laboratory situated In the side OF a
crag overlooking the water at Glouces.
ter. Mass. Here he has conducted the
important experiments which may
mean much to America some day In
repelling powerful enemy
Nikola Tesla was the pioneer in tel.
automatics. as the branch OF eIectri.
cal science to which Mr. Hammond
has devoted himself is called Tel.
automatics is the control OF mechani.
cal movements at great distance by
means Of wireless waves
Mr.. Hammond is not the first person
to control water craft at a distance
by wireless. But he is the first man
to do this effectively. He has taken
out more than one hundred patents to
protect his inveDfions IpcfdaptaI1v
he has spent $4,000 in experiments.
Until MIR. Hammond improved on
the previous devices. 1t was not DOS.
sible to guide by wireless a torpedo
making greater speed than eight
miles an hour. and even then 1t was
impossible to prevent the interference
OF hostile wireless apparatus.
The young inventor has solved both
these difficulties. He can control a
boat or torpedo making 33 knots, or
SO miles an hour. Wireless transmit.
ters much more powerful than his own
have tried in vain to check the direc.
ton of his boat.
The secretary OF war. Mr. Hammond
recently announced, has recommended
that the Hammond system be bur-
chased by this government and be
kept as an American secret
II congress will appropriate the
money a number of wireless plants
and torpedo units to be directed by
radio will be constructed. One Of the
poefrv and Noses.