INVISIBLE SHIP KEEPS EDISON OUT OF SIGHT.
WIZARD OF ELECTRICITY PERFECTING NEW 'TRIUMPH. T1 T,, ■ NT( ' W Yoi ' k "> October 17. Thomas Edison has been absent from Ins workshop in New Jersey for ten ueeks Big men in the electrical world have been trying to locate him. and now it comes out that he has made himself an invisible ship somewhere on the Atlantic Next Sunday. October 21, will mark the thirty-seventh anniversary of the discovery of the*incandescent Mit and there is a movement afoot to celebrate the occasion fittingly, with Mr Mison as the central figure The projectors.of the celebration were dumbfounded to learn that the wizard vvas away from his workshop and fur. thor disconcerted to learn that nobody at the works could inform them of the inventor's whereabouts. It is the first vacation Mr. Edison has had in his busy life ot more than fifty yeJirs. Early in the spring Mr. Edison's doc. tor told him he must take a vacation. Reluctantly he prepared to comply. His preparations consisted of rigging up an automobile with the paraphernalia of his laboratory and a second machine was to be his pleasure ear. When he was ull ready war was iVelared, and he received word that his presence was necdoo in Washington. Ho was; made a member of the Government's Advisory Roan!, and it was understood that he was working da\ and night upon some contrivance to offset the work of the German submarine. A few days ago a story was printed of an invisible ship which had successfully run the gauntlet in the submarine zone. The "invisibility'' of tlie ship was made possible by tlie' lowering of masts and lopping off smoke fui£ nefc until they they were flush with the deck. Hard coal being used and with forced draught taking the place of the tall funnels smoke clouds Avere eliminated for the 500 miles of the U-boat zone.
Ttic neutral tones now in use In paintins merchant vessels add (n Dip deeept'O" an <l the ship is camouflaged out of sight.
The invisible ship was the invention of the American wizard, and now word comes from Washington that the inventor lias made himself invisible 011 an invisible ship riding 1 on the waves somewhere on the Atlantic. Hi* vacation has usual work, for he Is perfecting his invention. There Is more to the invisible ship than has been told of it. , The lowering of masts has been made easy at sea by hinges. The rest of the invention has been explained. This makes a freighter without a skyline, but the inventor declines to stop there. Other ships "besides freighters must be made safe in the U-boat channels and the wizard is at worl* planning this out.
It is understood that his laboratory tests have solved the puzzle and'he has been at sea all this time making practical demonstrations,
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 December 1917, Page 8
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