AIRSHIPS.
A OKi ANTIC SEARCHLIGHT. Press Assn — By telegraph — Copyright. (Received this day, 8.35 a.m.) > BERLIN, yesterday. , The .new Siemens Schuckert airship, constructed for Germany, is of the non-rigid type, with 500 horsepower, and Avill ear*y 54 passengers. The same company has patented a 180 million c.aniHe-powor searchlight, for detecting a torpedo vessel at a distance of from seven to nine miles. The National Zeitung reports that Herr Tschemersin, an engineer, has invented bullet-proof airship armour.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 303, 26 June 1909, Page 5
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76AIRSHIPS. Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 303, 26 June 1909, Page 5
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