American Inventor's Device to Revolutionize War Tactics:
The Death Stroke San Francisco, July 30.
'Assistance of the Navy Depart~ ment will be asked by Dr. Edwin Scott in texting his "death stroke" in the form of "cared lightning," which, he claims, will revolutionize war' tactics.
Dr, Scott said yesterday that he wished to convince Government officials of the efficacy of his invention as a death dealing agency. He plans to make the test off the dust of California some time in September with an old battleship or pilotless aeroplane, or both. 'Diese, he said, he would ask the Government to' provide.
A few of the possibilities attri-tuted to his new invention by Dr. Scott are:
Destruction of all life on land, rea or in the air, within a radius of 20 miles; disabling of all radio apparatus within a similar radiui struction of the superstructures,. of battleships at a distance of ten miles or more; the bringing down of aeroplanes from any height possible for a plane to achieve: destruction or disabling of land fortifications at long distances 'In tosts already conducted," said Dr. Scott, "holes have been' burned in two-inch steel plates at a distance of one mile; dead trees have been fired at the same distance, und animal life has been snuffed out at distances ranging from two to seven miles. Dummy aeroplanes also have Leen destroyed in air tests."
While maintaining strict secrecy regarding structural details of his reaching, Dr. Scott said that all the were here ready "for assembling and the more important parts were carefully guard-fed in a safety deposit vault.
Dr. Scott is a native of Detroit, Mich, but his home is now in California. For nine years, he said, he was a student and protéyé of the late Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, eledirical wizard of Schenectady, N. Y. He credited Dr, Steinmetz with giving the fundamental principles for his "death stroke."
Dr. Scott also claimed to be the inventor of synthetic gasoline. He predicted that the world's crude oil supply would be exhausted by 1935, and declared that his view shared by Mr. J. F. Norris, Presi dent of the American Chemical Peeler Reaker's American Ser-
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