WARSHIPS WITHOUT MEN.
CONTROLLED ELECTRICALLY.
(Received Sept. 22, 8.30 a.m.)
LONDON, Sept. 21
Th- "Standard's" Berlin correspondent reports that Wirth, an electrical engineer, and C. Beck, a manufacturer, have invented a manless warship.
The guns can be fired and the eagines and helm controlled by means of electrical waves, over a radius of eighteen miies.
Exhaustive experiments have been made with a motor boat on a lake Nuremberg. The device is also applicable to submarines and airships.
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Northern Advocate, 22 September 1910, Page 5
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