Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1921, Page 3

100000 SCHEMES SUBMITTED *T0 PUT QUICK FINISH TO WAR” Daniels Tells of “Porcupine Boat™ and “Cotton Batting Armor"—Hair-Brained " Inventions and Useful Devices. BY JOSEPHUS DANIEL! Former Secretary of the Navy. ARTICLE 22. The naval consulting board was created in 1915, with Thomas A. Edi- son_at its head. The announcement of its creation resulted in an ava- lanche of plans, charts, diagrams and models which ume and variety until more than 100,000 suggestions for inventions, completed inventions and proposals for the utilization of existing devices in new ways had been received, :d, card indexed, examined and upon. Eighty per cent of them were devoted to putting the German U-boats out of business. The submarine early gripped the Ameri- can imagination, and stimulated the inventive s of the most in- genious people in the world. I remember, one Monday morning in 1917, finding Admiral William Strother Smith, who had charge of this work with the consulting board, gazing in something like consterna- tion at three huge sacks of mail containing about 2,000 letters and packages. We were besieged by geniuses of every variety. enthusias- tic, persistent, and, each of them convinced that the adoption of his plan or device would bring the war litegally to a victorious end within a few weeks. We dared not turn any of them away the first time, since no one could tell until some inquiry been made whether the most looking person might not worth-while proposal to offer. But once the impossible crank and the impractical theorist were discovered and labeled in the mind of the department, steps were taken to prevent their wasting pre- cious time of busy officials by re- newed visitations. “Idea Worth Millions.” As 1 was discussing department business with a bureau chief one day. the telephone rang and a clerk - said “long distance” was calling. He did not catch the name clearly, but thought it was Mr. Ford. 1 found in a moment that it was not the famous Detroit automobile maker, for the man at the other end of the line began talking a blue streak, i with the déclaration: ented a thing that will wipe out the submarine; I've got something that positively will end the war." He seemed quite excited about it. 1 asked him what it was. He said he could not tell me over the phone, or intrust the secret to mails or tele- graph. Send it to our inventions board,” 1 suggested. Not on_your life!” he replied. “They might steal it, and I'd never get the credit for it. It's worth mil- lions, million: He said he would never show it to but three people—the President, Mr. Edison and myself; and all three must give the pledge of secrecy. “There’s not a moment to be lost, and 1 want to bring it to Washing- ton myself,” he exclaimed; “but I must be careful. If the Germans knew I had this. their spies would murder me.’ “Wire $5,000 at Once.” d“Afl right, bring it on,” I remark- ed. “Send me $5,000. by telegraph this afternoon. and I'll start tomorrow,” he demanded. Accustomed as I was ons, this did rather o, mo,” I reptied em- phatically; “I can't do that.” “Do you mean to’say’—he seemed to be surprised—"that you won't send me a measly little $5,000 when the thing I have is worth millions. and will end the war?” “That’s_ correct,” I said, rather sharply, I fear; “we will not send anybody a dollar of sgovernment money until we know 'fl“ it ys for. “Well, that's the smallest piece of business I ever heard of,” he snap- ped. “I thought you were some Sec- retary—and now I believe all the mean things the newspapers have said about you.” One of my office aids figured out that this irate citizen had spent about $20 in telephone tolls. We never heard from hi again, and the in- vention that would end the war W: lost to the world. . The “Porcupine Boat.” \ The police who guarded the portals of the State, War and Navy building stopped at the entrance a tall, lean an who was lugging a box as big as two suit cases. They ordered him to open it, and found Inside a con- trivance that looked as if it might go off at any moment. He wanted to see somebody in the Navy Depart- ment, and one of my aids went down SPECIAL NOTICES. had unlikely have a really kept growing in vol- | | to_investigate. The fellow did not look like a spy or a plotter, and the Navy man asked. him what his con- traption was. “It's a ‘porcupine boat’"” he said; “a boat that'll keep off the torpedoes | the submarines are firing.” | "It was a model of a_boat, its wood- en sides thickly studded with long spikes. | “What's the idea?" he was asked. “Well, you see, the torpedoes can't sink a ship unless they hit her.” he explained, “and if you put these long spikes all along the side, they can't get to her. The spikes will s€op ‘em; hit the boat—and there you are.” It was a great idea; certainly no one else had thought of it. But as the spikes would have to be about fifty feet long to hold off the torpe- does, and each ship would have to have three or four thousand of them, we could not very well adopt the in- vention. Wrap Ship in Cotton. A southern inventor brought forth a plan that would have thrilled the sunny south with joy if it could have been adopted. This was to sheathe all ships with an armor of thick cotton atting. He evidently got his in- spiration from the battle of New Or- leans, where doughty old Andrew ton could not penetrate. So a century later this Jacksonian figured that a ship swathed in cotton would be im- mune from shell or torpedoes. The Germans could fire away, and do no more harm than if they were throw- ing rocks at a mattress. Any new use for cotton in unlimited quantities naturally appealed to me, as T come from a cotton-raising se tion, but unfortunately the naval ex- perts seemed to have their doubts about the efficacy of cotton-batting armor, preferring to stick to steel. There were a lot of inventions, of course, and even some of those that were not practicable embodied ideas that were worth considering. Though we never did succeed in building a non-sinkable ship the thought given to the subject and the experiments made were not without their value. Increasing the buoyancy of vessels if one of the things that all naval con- structors are studying, and we believe that ours have made as much prog- ress in this direction as those of any other country. Protection Against Torpedoes. Our capital ships are being built Yo that one torpedo will not disable them, and it might take two or three to sink them. This method may, in time, be adapted to transports and all large vessels used in war service. ‘The development of devices for de- tecting submarines; of the radio com- pass, which tells ship its position at sea; of the monricochet shell, which is not deflected when it hits the water; of small guns for aero- planes; of star shells that are a great aid in night-firing, throwing a blaze of light over enemy vessels, while not revealing the positions of our own ships—these are only a few of the in- ventions that came out of-the war. Beginning as a crude affair carry- ing fifty pounds of explosive, the depth charge was developed into & huge bomb, carrying 600 pounds of TNT; timed to explode at any depth— a reliable weapon that was the terror of the U-boats. ‘The paravane, an English invention, proved of the greatest value in pro- tecting ships from mines. Like two huge wings spread out in the wter, it picked up mines, and its wires bore them away from the ships where they could be exploded without danger to the vessel. Mines. played a big part in naval warfare. The Germans sowed the seas with them, and if the allied mine-sweepers had not been so ener- getic and skillful in removing them they might have been as destructive to shipping as the U-boats were. The new mine our navy developed in 1917 was regarded as decidedly superior to any of its predecessors, and this was the type used in the North sea mine barrage, 80 per cent of which was composed of American mines, laid by American vessels. Deteet Appreach of “Sub.” At lastsafter gonsiderable experi- ment, American " genius devised a “listening” apparatus that would dis- close the presence of a submarine miles away, if it was in motion. It enabled the operators, by the sound of the propellers and other noises, to tell whether the ship heard was a liner, a warship or a “sub.” This was the most efficlent device of the kind perfected during the war, and was adopted by other nations. Better guns for aeroplanes was a vital need. Our ordnance officers vastly improved the machine guns in use. _But for anti-submarine wa fare we needed a large-caliber gun SPECIAL NOTICES. GAE RANGES REPAIRED AND REBUILT. CLYDD L. BOWERS, rear 616 H st. nw. Main 7084, 12 our TO MY FRIENDS AND A(aUAlHTAN(‘lx e red to take care L lite, PBest companies represented. i Il details. We tfully wolicit your etemage, CGBOL C. DONOHOB. 220 Oxford n.w. 1t will water how Jesus was bap Hez Swem Sunday night chairs (men Like them). 7th and Bye n.e tized by Pastor Fine music: 3 | WILL BB RESPONSIRLE ONLY FPOR debts contracted by myself. EDWARD 3 rendon, Va . KBNNARD. 1 WILL NOT BE RPSPONSIBLE FOR ANY lews contracted by me person: debts “un W. W. 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Repairing—Recovering—Made t 3 FRENCH UMBRELLA SHOP ™" Fr. 458. 718 13th St. .12 Jackson erected a barricade of cot- | bales which the British shells | Abe Ma%tin Says: It’s fine t’ be public spirited an’ full o’ civic pride an’ a great booster, but th’ feller that at- tends t' his own business an’ pays his bills still remains th’ biggest asset o’ any community. Ther’s one thing a mother never learns an that is that her little child can’t walk as fast as | she kin. Copsright National Newspaper Service. with sufficient power to penetrate the hull plating of the U-boat, and the Davis non-recoil gun was pro- duced. This is a radical departure from previous types, the barrel being open at both ends, and loaded at the center by rotating half of the barrel around an offset axis. The projectile leaves the front barrel in the usual way, while a rear charge of equal weight is projected from the rear barrel. Consequently no recoil force is transmitted to the mount. A Lewis machine gun is mounted above the Davis gun bar- rel, so that, in alming, the machine gun's bullets are fired in_approach- ing the target, and the Davis gun shell speeds forth as the mark is reached. “Smoke Boxes” by Thousands. Decided improvements were made in range-finding and fire-control devices, increasing the efficiency of large and medium caliber guns. “Smoke boxes™ | were manufactured by the thousands and placed aboard merchant as well as naval vessels, so that in case of attack by submarine they could make smoke-screens of their own. There were also many improvements in wireless telegraphy, one of the most interesting of 'these being the radio compass, by means of which the posi tion of ships at sea could be deter- mined. This was so successful that suhmarines made little use of their wireless near shore, fearing to dis- close their location. So many new devices were devel- oped that it would take pages to tell of them all, and though thousands of the suggestions made were impracti- cable, not a few were of decided value, and the result of war develop- ment as a whole was fresh proof of the never-failing inventiveness and genius of Americans. (Copyright, 1921, by John F. Dille. Copy- right by National Newspaper Service. Copy- right in Great Britain, nada and throughou France. All rights reserved, including trans- lation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian. Unau ized reprinting for any purpose forbidden.) . (Another article by Former Secre- will be priiited in The Change for the Better. Has your family _outgrown your present home? Do you yourself feel that a-change of environment would be for the better? Consult us about an ex- change of your dwelling for one more suitable to present needs. “Maximum Service” as- sures satisfactory service. il ‘We Repair Roofs —And Plumbing. 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