THE POWER OF THE THREE
CONTRIVANCE TO ■ END WARS.;
Giant battleships made helpless; huge airplanes crashing impotent to earth, their magnetos ruined; submarines failing to respond to their motors—all these things are possible with "Teleney." At least, so dreams Hans Dominik in his latest Jules-Verne-like romance, "The Power of the Three," which portrays the annihilation of war through a simple device called the "Strahler," or Raysender,,;. ... From the vagaries of his fancy, says a Berlin message to th^ "San Francisco Chronicle," probably arises the rumour that N'euen has actually devised a wavesending device which cripples magnetos, making, it possible to bring to earth airplanes far aloft, halt automobiles at a distance, and stop submarines cruising beneath the waters. Nauen say 6 this is not so, and the famous Professor Lock, of the Telefunken Company avers, "In the present state of science this idea is impossible; certainly it has not been developed yet." '-..•. , But., proving that truth is stranger than fiction, along comes the Hungarian , inventor Dionyg yon Mihaly with the assertion that he has.solved the longdistance picture problem. He writes in a book just issued that he devised a system of lenses and electrical contacts whereby a person at the telephone can see clearly the person at the other end with whom he i B conversing. Of, Mihaly 'clainiSj his device . can be utilised for rapid transference of pictures at a distance. ■ '■ <
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 14
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232THE POWER OF THE THREE Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 14
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