The tunnel thru the air : $b or, Looking back from 1940Gann, William D. (William Delbert)
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The tunnel thru the air : $b or, Looking back from 1940
Gann, William D. (William Delbert)
Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction; Science fiction
The delay by the Allied Enemy was just what Supreme Commander Gordon
wanted. It gave him time to prepare. He had ordered the Henry Motor
Company of Detroit to proceed at once to manufacture according to his
plans which he sent them, two large machines, one positive and one
negative, by which he could send currents of electricity thru the air
and produce a vacuum, or as he called it, a "Tunnel thru the Air."
These plans had been worked out years before and there was no question
but what the machines would work successfully. The Henry Motor Company
had been commandeered by the United States Government and as soon as
they received the order and plans from the Supreme Commander, they
started running day and night working to build the two giant machines.
The fifteen days' armistice expired on October 18th, 1931. Supreme
Commander Gordon was in readiness and waited the first attack of the
enemy. Less than thirty days from the time that he ordered work started
on the machines, they reported that the machines were completed and
ready to test out. He called Colonel Kennelworth to his office in
New York and explained to him that the great Vacuum Producer, as the
machine had been named, had been completed; ordered him to proceed
at once to Detroit and test out the machines both for short and long
distance work.
Colonel Kennelworth arrived in Detroit on November 17th. The following
day tested out the Tunnel machines; reported to Supreme Commander
Gordon that they were working in fine shape and producing results
according to the plans. The Supreme Commander then decided to go
immediately to Detroit and establish one of the machines at a base
there and have Colonel Kennelworth take the other machine to Cincinnati
and set it up. The machine was transported secretly and successfully to
Cincinnati and set up in one of the largest buildings in the city.
On November 20th, Supreme Commander Gordon and Colonel Kennelworth
tested the Tunnel machines over this long distance. The machines were
set to produce a tunnel 100 yards wide at first and were set in motion.
The American scouting airplanes were sent off over a described area
and on entering between these lines found that they were in a complete
tunnel. They could travel quickly back and forth thru the Tunnel in the
Air. This was a great triumph. Commander Gordon instructed all those
connected with the test to keep it a complete secret. He knew that this
was going to be a great surprise to the enemy when they started their
next attack.
Supreme Commander Gordon had now completed another new invention on the
same plan of the radio that he had to use in his office in New York
several years before to record conversations when the manipulators
were trying to catch him in the stock market. He had enlarged this
machine so that it would record voices 3000 miles away and named it the
"Tel-Talk."
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