Identifier: saturdayeveningp1835unse (find matches)
Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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e Zeppelins that have been builtlater there is a special arrangement for burning this other-wise wasted hydrogen in the motors, which is an appreci-able saving; but it indicates how delicate must be theadjustment of the monsters. Major George 0. Squier, the aeronautic expert of theAmerican Signal Corps, has worked out a theoreticalscheme for dropping heavy loads of explosives from bal-loons. He would tow one or more balloons behind thedirigible like a line of coal barges behind a tugboat. Eachballoon and its load could be cut away by the pressure of abutton in the dirigible. The towed balloon would shootup and be lost, but the load of explosives would be droppedeffectively. The advent of aeronautics into warfare exposes a newand vulnerable point. War is not, as a rule, fought bythe men who declare it. The days when Coeur de Lionand the Black Prince headed their forces in the field,and sought trouble personally, are past. Wars now aredeclared by kings and parliaments, and there usually
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Shooting From an Aeroplane. Lieutenant Jacob Karl Fickel, of the Twenty ninth Infantry are thousands of men between the ruler who is declaringand the frontier where the fighting is going on. At theworst, with the defeat of the defending force, the rulerhas ample time to take a private car for the oppositefrontier. This situation is changing with the development ofaeronautics. Frontiers, fortresses and armies can nolonger keep out the foe. A daring party of aerial raiderscan at any time threaten the capital of a hostile country;and when a ruler or a national legislature realizes theimminent possibility of having a cartload of dynamitedropped down its chimney, or the roof blown off its palace,the personal factor may enter and war be discouraged. General James Allen, chief signal officer of the army,still believes in the future of the dirigible balloon. Said he:We are ten years behind Europe with the development ofthe dirigible. We ought to build one more at any rate andsee what we can d

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