The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-04


His scientific achievement was oues.
toned blandly by official engineer,
who had invented nothing.
The English Governmcnt took HE
melinite and called it lydd.tc-as Il
should write this story and pr
Lidd should sign 1t and draw the nav
by request.
There is no use to argue about sucb
things. Eugene Turpins wiful mouth
and stormy blue eyes in his round and
rudy face proclaim the quick TEN.
pered, original genius who cannot ge,
on with red tape funCtionar.,s-inno
cent minded impulsive and lacking /,
the tranquil astuteness OF the man
who arrives.
During years Turpin suffered from
the malice Of men and the proiud.ces
of official savants. lie invented. Fen.
ian fire, capable of throwing panic
into an entire army corps Boy terro,
and surprise alone, and the French
military authorities would not look a,
it, He invented non-poisouous paints
with which some one vi make
fortune some day, but be sure 1t wont
be Turpin. He invented the French
artillery shell actually in use Uaten,
No. 1852, year 1ssD.
Then the war broke out.
TRANQUILITY they took Turpn's she"
poured Turpin's melinte into it. ami
got busy, never saying "thank you"
Turpin did not care. He said.
France first" and added: Here is
turpinite II you want IT,"
They took his turpinite without IT.
name. Gail it modern melin!tc. or mod.
ern lyddte. II Turpin should invent
perfume they would call 1t Durands
bouquet or Smiths garden. But now
you know why the new French ar.
tillery range is so much longer, and
why shells from English dreadnough,
guns penetrate armor plate like no,
iron in butter Never did a charge
OF English cordite make holes like
these.
Late in life Alfred Nobel worked
again or his gum dynamite. With q
sufficient percentage of nitroglycerine
in 1t he obtained a non-detonating eX.
plos.ve-not smashing. but prOpulsye
which he called Nobel powder or bal.
listite. England adopted 1t as cori!'e
Italy as filite, and Germany under a
German name, which escapes M. They
imagined they had something far more
powerful than French smokeless pow.
der, but admittedly heating, rapidly
wearing out the cannon.
Luckily for France, Turplu was
there. And Nobels compound of dyna.
mite and nitroglycerine to make a
super gunpowder will help Us TO be.
-, Co ,,I yi,,,t Ni .
would seem. has two regimes # do
composition, propuls!ve and sm1sh!nl
without danger of passing accidentally
from one TO he other, as certain
smokeless powders may. at times d.
from mere age.
These secrets are kept wrapped 10
darkest mystery, only their EFFECTS are
positively known. but Europe is low
convinced that turpinite has uutsD-
T. do with the alleged gas, supposed
that of hydrocyanic acid. This po..
sonous gas is heavier than the ar
ran the early cablegrams. land there.
fore would flow into depressous LIE
trenches and kill all within them"
Turpin calls IL "dirtiness H.
would never recommend such NorGl
compounds for two reasons. T." ,",
ond being that they are impossible
The gas might possibly explode from
shells. but instantly diluted 10 'h
pure air of heaven II would Pee Elrm
less.
Yet entire groups of the enemy aV
been found lying, or sitting, apparently
dead. without the mark Of a wari
More extraordinary yet, twu-'h.r!- H
these dead men get up after % TINT
and walk around, complaint "H
did you wake me up? l was BAY"
such a good rest"
From which II is believed that l.t'
by turpinite is a pleasant way u: onl
, ing life.
German army surgeons aai.'
/ stand these deaths and arpt'H
| deaths without wounds. A. first ,H'
r We're ascribed to simple ne..a'
l shells. Intense Smelling Wit. G,rmf
high explosives has caused -.H.it
phenomena among the French ''
, rarely. 1t is now believed '.f %
, cause is found in the noise.
The noise exactly. Nos. +, a.
mospheric commotion, AMI ,... "a
= nary mclnite, iyddite, &c. w.r 3;
shells explode close onuus. rnN 81
I, shock the nervous centre h. '':r'
air vibrations as to CaUs. H .h..
bition. So is pri2chsh'1 .''"
out in the ring. Usually b, ..n
:, to; now and then he du.s. ].
=. same blow may or may Boz. $40.
!, out. 1t is great my~''' We
the noise of exploding tUrE ..... pr
cures long range superb -
;, Thus the enigmatic com. 3.
y, two uses. Turpinitc is a.... 4.
|, 50 molecularly stable that - D..
y. mixed with the propuls., N..'
cannon in small quan'itl,s ,'a
8 bustion increases 10 the NrrE "...
% the piece, giving that ,N'.E
the projectie which send
II armor plate as through a'
70 Yet. as detonatins esq
if time is l-l700th of
"a solving the shell into a ...
Ie like duckshot over a great d
le putting men "out" for
is nap by mere commotion.
rs Mixed with smukclc~~ ''
le ought to blow up the cauu E'
re doesn't, Used in shells
need a special Diet nate. '
lie doesn't, II may he fouu. '''
u are two varieties Of tIr
~ mittedly first class mys' b..
" public nor military attach, Dol.