Inventor Predicts Electrical Wars

Professor Low Says Charged Water Will Make Cavalry Obsolete.

WIRELESS EYES AND EARS

Englishman Believes That Artificial Heat Will Destroy European Regions.

Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

LONDON, Wednesday, Aug. 20. — Professor A. M. Low, scientist and inventor, whose work during the World War was highly valued by British War Inventions Board, contributes a remarkable article to the Fortnightly Review on the sort of warfare that may be expected a hundred years hence. Among the things he expects to play a part in future warfare are:

Jets of water, charged with electricity, to kill horses and men.

Wireless telephony, sight, heat, power and writing.

Wireless control of tanks and airplanes.

Battle plane engines developing wireless power to destroy aircraft within hundreds of yards.

Wireless heat to destroy European regions.

Giant transport airplanes with incredible speed.

Secret war plans ferreted out by wireless telephone and sight, the future war eyes and ears. Propaganda striking terror into very home by means of wireless receivers which will be more common than any telephone today.

Armored Diving and Flying Boats.

Armoured boats, capable of diving under the water and of flying in the air, a kind of combined tank-submarine-aeroplane.

Airplanes with electric impulse, their guns firing an enormous number of bullets a second.

Sisible bullets.

Electrically controlled rockets, operated on wires for wrecking planes.

A wireless controlled torpedo with wireless sighted periscope, periscope, controlled by a secret combination of wave lengths.

Gyroscopic, wireless airplanes over which operator, who may also be in flight, has absolute control and can release bombs at will.

Mental telephathy will form a useful method of communication.

In an interview with a Daily News reporter last night Professor Low amplified his vision.

“You will probably remember the experiments made some time ago in which smoke columns and water jets were used as wireless materials,” he said. “I have experimented with highly-charged jets of slightly acidulated water and I have given people very powerful shocks at a distance of a few feet. The effect is really extraordinary. It is easy to see that, on a much larger scale, my model could become a most powerful weapon. It will make cavalry obsolete. Protective measures will follow.”

Noises To Weaken Morale.

“Nikola Tesla has conducted experiments in the induction of electric current over large areas. With quite simple apparatus and using only three horse power, I can destroy thin iron sheets at a distance of three or four feet. The limiting factor at present is that the wire must be in circular form and thus make a closed circuit. Noise may play an important part in future warfare. It has a very curious effect on human beings.

The more highly civilized they become the more noise affects them. Lots of people in the last war were sent into a serious condition by the nerve-racking effect of noise. I can imagine the aggressive use of selected noises to undermine the morale of a population and the development of all sorts of anti-noise devices.”