A MANLESS WARSHIP
LONDON, September 21. The Standard's Berlin correspondent reports that Mr Wirth, an electrical engineer, and Mr C. Beck, a manufacturer, have invented a manless warship. Guns can be fired from the engine, and the helm controlled wirelessly by means of electrical waves over a radius of 18 miles. Exhaustive experiments made with a motor boat on a lake near Nuremberg 6how that the device is applicable to submarines and airships.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2950, 28 September 1910, Page 27
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73A MANLESS WARSHIP Otago Witness, Issue 2950, 28 September 1910, Page 27
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