MARCH OF SCIENCE
NEW INVENTION INTERESTS WAR OFFICE. United Preas Assocfation—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON. October 30. The War Office and Admiralty are interested in infra-red ray photography, in consequence of which special experiments have been initiated at the physical laboratory at Teddington. The new photographic plates overcome haze and fog, and give the definition as sharp at 20 miles as at 100 yards. If applied in warfare, it is suggested that the smoke screen for a battle fleet will
be rendered useless; aircraft will be able to photograph a battlefield or fortifications, while hidden in the clouds; liners will be able to speed through a fog, because they would know the position of ships ahead, and scientists would search a vaster area of the universe. The discovery may ultimately be tile means of deciding the existence of life on the planets.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19329, 2 November 1932, Page 9
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