THE WILLISTON GRAPHIC — AUGUST 06, 1908
S A V I O R O F O U R N A V Y ♢ INVENTOR HAS NOVEL DEVICE TO PROTECT BATTLESHIPS ♢ Proposes Chain Armor of Invisible Links to Ward Off Attacks of Hostile Torpedoes — Wants $75,000 for His Secret.
Washington.—William Wilson of Paterson, N. J., appeared at the capitol the other day in the guise of the savior of the United States navy.
He has walked through the dark valleys that lie at the bottom of the sea. He has stood, hand in hand with a mermaid, on the crests of submerged mountains. He has communed with the shark and the scuttlefish. He has learned from the swordfish how the waters of the mighty ocean may be hacked to pieces. The secrets of the seas are his and the mysteries of the waters are like A B C to him.
Therefore, William Wilson has thought it to be a grievous error to let this knowledge go for naught. William Wilson did not let it go for naught. He has invented a device that will mean millions, possibly billions, of dollars to the government’s capacious pocket. William Wilson has an invention that, at a nominal cost, will so fortify the ships of the American navy as to make the swiftest torpedoes of other navies mere minnows nibbling in vain at the sides of Uncle Sam’s men-of-war. The strongest subsurface projectile will strike the ships and fall, vain and useless, to the bottom of the ocean when once the chips have been provided with the new invention.
William Wilson’s contrivance is is the nature of an endless chain. It consists of links visible and invisible. It is to be hung around the hulks of vessel, and, in time of battle,
