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...boomed Herr Professor Oswald Flamm in Berlin last week, and the admiralties of the World listened for he ranks among the three greatest experts on subsea warfare. "There is nothing contrary to the Treaty of Versailles in what I am doing, because my experiments are being made purely as a private citizen...
...Citizen Flamm then announced that he has devised an "invisible torpedo," that is to say, one which leaves no tell-tale wake of air bubbles. Many a ship was saved during the War when its lookouts spotted the wake of an approaching torpedo and the wheel was instantly spun to swerve the ship. With an "invisible" torpedo-presumably one propelled by some other means than compressed air-the first warning of attack would be the actual explosion of the torpedo...
Navigation. A giant submarine cruiser of more than 7,000 tons, invented by Prof. Oswald Flamm, of Germany, has been built in model by the Augsburg-Nürnberger Machin-fabrik. The boat is heartshaped, point upward, with the keel in the groove of the heart, like an inverted V. The principal advantage is rapid and even submersion, the stability depending on the form and the distribution of pressure. It can submerge in 30 seconds without turning a degree, can cruise 20,000 miles and develop a speed of 23 knots an hour. It is 525 ft. long...