WHO INVENTED “BLISTERS?”.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3383, 12 January 1920, Page 2

WHO INVENTED “BLISTERS?”.

, : . 1 ——+—— ' 1 CLAIM FOR £35,000. —-—~ 1 ” I Who was the inventor of the “blis-l tor” protection which renders torpe-l | do attacks on ships fitted witli it com-:pal-atively inocuous, as our experiences 1 ‘during the war showed? .+ A Claim for £35,000 by Mr J. ‘M.j ‘ Campbell, :1 merchant. of C}leaLlle‘l Heath, Stockport, is being investi-i I gated by a committee of the Adniiralty l I The device consists in the pl'oVlS‘l { ion of 21 water blister or cushion roiind I the skin of the ship, which smothers ‘tho force of the explosion. Instead of [the explosion -smashing into thel 5] ship like a brick through a Window, E‘ it is‘ reduced‘ to the comparative lharmlessness of »a woman’s thump on a pillow. . Mr Campbell said ‘that he submitted I the idea to the Adiznralty as long ago I as 1891, but the matter was not 1310-} ; ceeded with. ‘ When, some months ‘after the out- ’ break -of war, the idea -began to be F exploited, and Mr Campbell wrote to the Admiralty‘ for Coiripensation, he l was told (he said)’ that the Admiralty I were not making _use of the device. -J In March this year I was informed ; by Mr Walter Long that is was quite {impossible that the Admiralty should ndope the device, though all the time i they were lecturing‘ about What it had ‘ done. “However, I have been" infiornied I that a committee of the Admiralty is Jconsideriug my claim.” l ———----—— I l _____,__,_______._