Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1901 — WILL DESTROY THE IRONCLAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WILL DESTROY THE IRONCLAD.

S. Sheckler of Wellsville, Ohio, has Invented and applied for a patent on a device to destroy ironclad battleships, which Secretary of the Navy Long and President McKinley believe will be a

success,th« invention having been submitted to their inspection. Sheckler is a well-known electrical engineer and has worked for two years on his invention. Its utilization all depends on the success of the submarine boat The device is a steel box two feet square, highly magnetized, filled with powerful explosives. The box is attached to the top of a submarine vessel in such a manner that It can be released when under a steel battleship, and by magnetism the box will immediately adhere to the armor of that vessel. Its discharge is regulated from the submarine boat by electric wires,

which unwind from a reel on top oi that vessel.

THE EXPLOSIVE ADHERES TO THE IRONCLAD'S HULL.