THE LATEST WONDER.
HAMMOND'S WIRELESS I TORPEDO. ' Vancouver, July 30. I A Boston .message states that Mr John Ilayos Hammond, jiui., whose leqturo on war weapons attracted ■world-wide attention, lias announced | that the United States is considering tiio purchase of his wirelessly-coiitrol-led torpedo Mith tlic intention of estalilishing iinitts to protect American , harbours. [Mr Hammond, the son of a millionaire, has for years been carrying on important experimental and practical work in electrically-controlling craft of various kinds. He is able from his house overlooking the sua to manoeuvre a vessel with no one on board for a groat distance from shore, and his recent work with tlio wirelesslycontrollccl torpedo is regarded as being of the highest importance. it I greatly rescnililes the invention of an I Australian engineer, whose navigable torpedo is now being tried hj the Admiralty.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2788, 10 August 1915, Page 1
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