Popular science monthly . It looks tiny, but it will cnrry three hvin-drcd |K>uiidti at twenty five miles an hour The Giant Destroyer of the Future Can a juggernaut be built whichwill annihilate a whole army ? By Frank Shuniaa Illustrated by Edwin F. Baylia (.. *<rt*.^ , The author is a distivguished engineer luho inventedthe daring sun-power plant described in the Octoberissue of the Popilar SriEXCE Monthly. His concretepiles, wired glass, luool-degreasing machines and otherinventions have made him famous.—Editor.) A CLUB, a bow and arrow, a blunder-buss, an infantrymans ritlc, a forty-
Popular science monthly . It looks tiny, but it will cnrry three hvin-drcd |K>uiidti at twenty five miles an hour The Giant Destroyer of the Future Can a juggernaut be built whichwill annihilate a whole army ? By Frank Shuniaa Illustrated by Edwin F. Baylia (.. *<rt*.^ , The author is a distivguished engineer luho inventedthe daring sun-power plant described in the Octoberissue of the Popilar SriEXCE Monthly. His concretepiles, wired glass, luool-degreasing machines and otherinventions have made him famous.—Editor.) A CLUB, a bow and arrow, a blunder-buss, an infantrymans ritlc, a forty-two centimeter howitzer are merelyinstruments for deli\ering blows. Theessential difference between the battles ofprehistoric times and those of today liesin the manner of delivering blows. Smoke-less powder has merely lengthened the armof a modern fighter. He strikes and killsat a distance of miles. For all our machine-guns, for all our ter-rible artillery- preparation, battles arestill won by bayonets. Tactics have beensomewhat modified since Napoleons day,because of the invention of the machine-gun and the high-powered field-piece. Butthe individual fighter is still as imjiortantas he ever was. \Vc speak of the (iermanor French or Russian war machine,
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