ELECTRIC EYE SHELLS
FOR USE AGAINST BOMBERS LONDON, January 6. "Electric eye” shells automatically exploded by reflected light from the aeroplanes at which they are aimed may be a new terror for bombers. A Swedish firm, Telefonaktiebolaget L.M. Ericsson, of Stockholm, has been assigned the patent to manufacture them. it is claimed that the shells, tired without fuses, will burst as soon as they are within effective distance of their targets. This is the secret, of an "electric eye” shell. It will carry a cartridge of magnesium that will burn fiercely in the nose and a. photo-electric cell connected to an explosive charge for ■detonating the shell. Light from the burning magnesium will, it is claimed, be reflected off the body of the target plane, caught byi the photo-electric cell, and generated! into electric current to explode the! shell.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 February 1939, Page 3
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