TORPEDO BOAT CONTROLLED BY WIRELESS
".Uost of us have heard of torpedoes controlled by wireless telegraphy" i'vnai Uic Hliors, although little news line coinn to hand indicating Hie employment of these weapons during the present war," says "Chambers's Journal." "The principle has now been carried a stage further by the invention of a wireless-con-trolled torpedo-boat, of which an American named John Hays Hammond, junr., is the originator. Not only can the boat lie controlled, but its torpedoes can be discharged from shore stations up to ten miles distant.
"The boat is by no meana a toy, as it measures fifty feet in length, and it is fitted with engines of four hundred and fifty horse-power, and has a speed of over twenty-five miles an. hour. The inventor clnims that ho has 'been able so to control the boat from a distance of threes and a half miles tliat it will bit a pole in the water ten times out of fifteen.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3150, 31 July 1917, Page 3
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161TORPEDO BOAT CONTROLLED BY WIRELESS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3150, 31 July 1917, Page 3
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