A Soldier who is bomb, bullet, and shell proof, who does not mind either liquid fire or the most vicious kind of gas, has been invented by a Danish engineer. He has taken out patents on a device known as the “Automatic Soldier”. The “automatic soldier” consists of a special double steel cylinder made of shell-proof Tungsten steel or the like. There is one outer stationary cylinder, and a second inner cylinder, the latter telescoping into the stationary one. The entire device is set into trenches, the contrivance taking the place of a human soldier. When the “soldier” goes into action the inner cylinder rises 18 in., which brings it above the parapet of the trench. In other words, the automatic soldier normally is invisible, and only can be seen when the inner cylinder rises. The gun, as well as the entire mechanism, is entirely controlled by wireless.
