Word: robots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the start London knew the robot bomb for what it was-a new weapon of terrible power. It was never something to be shrugged off with British humor and contempt for the bloody Nazis. It was a weapon which struck again & again & again, 18 hours at a stretch. Even its sound-effects were potent: a throaty roar, then a sudden silence when the jet motor stopped and the bomb dived; then the blast. It kept thousands of Londoners in deep shelters. It drove other thousands to the country. It kept thousands, at work aboveground, in a state of sustained...
...Visible War. In the first four weeks, the robots killed 2,752, injured 8,000. Still, the robot's power to disrupt was greater than its power to kill; the rate of casualties during the worst periods of the 1940-41 blitz was twice as high...
...propelled by gases generated by their own fuel), but a jet-propelled missile which carries 136 gallons of gasoline, has a range of about 150 miles and a speed of 200 to 300 m.p.h. The length of its flight is regulated by a timing device which tips the robot into a 60-degree dive. Oberth presumably abandoned his rocket design because the necessary weight of fuel made it unpractical. Since his jet-propelled bomb is dependent on air, it cannot soar above the stratosphere like a rocket hut must remain within range of enemy flak and planes...
...Inventor Hammond dismisses current buzz-bombing as a form of "making faces, beating drums and throwing stink bombs." But Hammond, himself the inventor of a radio-controlled glider bomb, predicts that with radio devices steering the projectile from several different points to correct each other's errors, the robot bomb will become "quite dangerous." Experiments have shown, says he, that it is very difficult to interfere with radio control of a projectile; radio interference may even attract the missile to the target...
...scientist in London, pronouncing the robot bomb "as revolutionary as the airplane," solemnly declared last week: "In the postwar world, development of rocket and jet propulsion must be placed in the hands of some international body to administer. No nation in Europe-perhaps none in the world-could feel safe with another nation developing such weapons...