Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1914 — VIOLET RAYS EXPLODE MINE [ARTICLE]

VIOLET RAYS EXPLODE MINE

Test of Italian Inventor's Apparatus Proves to Be Remarkably Successful. Giulio Urlvi carried out new experiments at Florence, Italy, with his invention for blowing up powder megezines and explosives incased in metal by means of ultra-violet rays projected from a distance. While Admiral Fornari was sinking four mines td twothirds their depth in the River Arno, the inventor transported his apparatus to Mount Senarlo, ten miles away, and placed it behind the hill town of Flesole, thus adding to the obstacles between himself and the explosives. Within a half hour after receiving signal, Urlvi, by his projector, exploded all the mines. Admiral Fornari then subjected the system to another stringent test by sinking in various parts of the river a number of metal bombs, containing explosives, which he prepared himself. Though the task presented enormous difficulties owing to the conformation of the river, the young engineer from his position on the mountain took only a quarter of an hour in each case to scour the river bed with the rays and locate the bombs. Urlvi is about to start experiments with a new apparatus capable of blowing up any explosive within a radius of 80 miles.