Popular Science Monthly 



739 



The lion was lifted 

 out of the top of his 

 cage with grappling 

 hooks and a derrick 



Harnessing a Fighting 

 Lion for the Films 



THE photographs above 

 were taken during the 

 filming of an-adventure-in- 

 the-jungle photo play, when 

 a lion was to be pictured running. The 

 "jungle" was mere painted canvas, but the 

 lion — he was very much the real thing! 

 With mighty struggles and protests, he was 

 lifted by a derrick right over the top of his 

 cage and on to a stationary, split platform 

 on the stage. His feet rested upon two 

 boards which were alternately given a back 

 and forward motion. The result was 

 a furious struggling lion. 



To hold the animal steady he was 

 strapped to this heavy iron sup- 

 port on the stationary platform 



Three Shots with a Single Shell. 

 It's Intended for Airships 



A KIND-FACED Britisher, not sat- 

 isfied with having one try at a 

 Zeppelin or an airplane with 

 each shot from an anti-aircraft Powd< 

 gun, has designed and pat- 

 ented a progressively explod- 

 ing shell which has three 

 exploder charges in three sep- 

 arate compartments, arranged 

 to burst at different time in- 

 tervals. If the first explosion 

 is too early the second or 



The three compartments 

 of the shell are connected 

 by a tube with the charge 



Two boards were shift- 

 ed back and forth to 

 give the lion the ap- 

 pearance of running 



the third may find the 

 mark. Each compartment 

 charge gives off a different 

 colored light for the in- 

 formation of the gunner, 

 who knows the time inter- 

 val between the charges 

 and the time for which the first com- 

 partment is set to burst. By comparing 

 the position of the red or blue or white flare 

 with the position of the airship, the gunner 

 corrects his range. 



This performance is made possible by a 

 shell having three separate and heavy com- 

 partments, each with its load of shrapnel 

 and bursting charge. They are con- 

 nected only by a small fuse passage 

 extending from one to the other. 



A time fuse which is carried in the 

 head, connected by a tube through 

 the shell with the charge in the com- 

 partment at the base of the shell, fires 

 this base charge at what the gunner 

 hopes is the psychological moment 

 Fuse for obtaining the desired re- 



passage sm t. But if this happens to 

 be a poor choice of time, the 

 fuse crawls up to compart- 

 ment two, and sets off that 

 also, with its different colored 

 light. If nothing decisive 

 happens then,* the gunner 

 finally lets the third charge 

 go in the shell head. 



Time 

 fuse 



