Word: torpedoed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
General Mason B. Patrick, Chief of the U.S. Army Air Service, selected the officers who will attempt a flight round the globe this Spring. They are now at Langley Field, Va., learning every detail to the Douglas Torpedo planes, handling the latest navigation instruments, scanning world maps, studying the meteorolgy and topography of the route...
...herself chaperone to the only vial of the explosive in existence. Her temperamental charge puts her through a rapid array of situations, such as: rescued from a motorboat by airplane at 50 miles an hour; shelled out of the airplane and then out of a parachute; escaped through the torpedo tubes of a submerged submarine. It may be inferred that the picture is gorgeously impossible, rabidly exciting. As a fitting climax the crazy prince is injected into a den of ill-fed lions, which he maintains below his study for the convenient disposition of his dearest enemies...