BOY INVENTS BOMB
MECHANICAL GENIUS [from a special CORRESPONDENT] LONDON. Dec. 0 A 13-vears-old schoolboy, John Clough, of Utley, near Keighley, Yorkshire, has invented a new type of aerial bomb, and a Ministry of Supply expert who has been examining the plans says John had a "first-class idea." With two school friends, Gordon Pask, aged 12, and David Anderson, 13, John lias spent eight months working out the plans, which have now passed a preliminary inspection by Government research experts. John, who is described as a mechanical genius, talked about his invention this week. "I got the idea for the bomb during the summer holidays, and 1 worked out the details while I was in sick bay with a chill at school this term," he said. "Pask is good at chemistry, and he suggested what chemicals were wanted. Anderson helped to work out how to release the bomb."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23545, 4 January 1940, Page 11
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