Excerpt from The Journal of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia and Affiliated Societies, 1918, Vol. 35 A great many men come along with dreams - ideas not worked out. One of them came to a member of the Board and said. Why don't we electrocute the Cer man submarine? W'hy. We said, we would be very glad indeed to have. You tell us your method of doing this. Oh, he said, I have given you the idea. You are an engineer. You work it out. Another has dreams of projecting wireless waves out over the country - electrocute everything: put them to sleep by wireless waves. H e does not tell us how he has not gotten so far; but he will divulge it if you will send somebody to him and tell nobody else about it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.