AN ENGINE OF WAR.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11414, 27 October 1902, Page 4

AN ENGINE OF WAR.

A new and potentially tevnoie ew of war is now being perfected by Jts P vrator (writes Mr Lucy in the "SjtJWJ Morning Herald"). It is designed t*> « ■. able a vessel loaded with explosives to w safely conducted into the midst o. n.n«fleet, primed to do itr- work <***pnP* time. Such enterprises are at th« they were with the anc»nt Greeks, lfflww by the circumstance tJiat thee»« «• ducting the iire ship will be among i fsr.t victims of the success oj errand. Mr Storey ingenious machinery , -X'r fn«» a vesßel can bo steered either laud or from an attactwff vessel, Jim •» ,

rocftti-is: the neceewity of any bving person being on board. I wa* privileged to be prtwnt at experiment* privately conducted on Lake Windermere. A steam launch, its steering gear controlled by elec- , irica.l machinery, put out on the lake, with ■j n o hand touching the tiller. Standing by 4 another electric machine on shore, Mr 7 Storey steered the launch port or starboard as lie willed, direoting it in safety i- Mid out a fleet of sloops and steam launches at their moorings. The apparent miracle was made posible by an adapMtion .»f the principle of wireless telczraphv. its adaptation to this particular work Ving the secret, of the inventor.