TO PREVENT COLLISIONS AT SEA.

Bush Advocate, Volume XVI, Issue 582, 5 December 1904, Page 7

TO PREVENT COLLISIONS AT SEA.

A Dutch .engineer haa invented an ingenious device for the prevention of collisions at sea. In this apparatus use is made of the electric waves, which have the same quality as rays of light in being reflected from a polished surface. Thus a ship provided with a "telemobiloscope" _ as the new device is called, will be able to discover the presence of another vessel or any' metallic body at a distance of from three to five kilometres. It will also be able to judge of -the position of the other vessel and the course which it is steering, so that the captain may, if neoessary, change his own, and thus avoid danger. The device is said to -have been already tested in Holland, and to have given excellent results.

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