Word: torpedo
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...home at Gloucester, Mass., set up his experimental laboratory on a high bluff. Soon he had developed a means for radio control of a boat at sea. The perfection of this invention covered a period of years, but is now practically perfect. He applied the same principle to a torpedo and developed one that could be steered at will at a speed of 50 mi. an hour on the surface, or 27 mi. submerged. It was in this connection that he developed a type of non-interferable radio transmission. Several foreign Governments were reported to have offered tremendous sums...
...dynamic torpedo for coast defense...
...000th patent was Simon Lake, inventor and pioneer in submarine experiment. His original submarine, the Argonaut, is still in the yard of the Lake Torpedo Boat Co., of Bridgeport. His latest, No. 1,500,000, is described under SCIENCE...
...regard to blistering and other forms of structural protection from torpedo attack, Great Britain has or soon will have 10 of her 20 battleships so protected; the U. S. has 5 of her 18 protected; Japan is an unknown quantity, but intends to spend 50,000,000 yen modernizing her fleet...
...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 and 49 ft. wide, and carries large torpedo and gun armament. Germany has neither the money, nor the possibility (under present military control) of building such submarines, and the French, Italian and British Governments are interested in the invention. The largest submarines now being built are of 3,000 tons...