INFRA-RED RAYS
WONDERFUL POWERS. OVERCOMING HAZE AND FOG. LONDON. Oct. 30. The War Offce and Admiralty are in terested in infra-red ray photography in consequence of which special experi merits have been initiated at the physical laboratory at Teddington. The new photographic plates over come haze ami fog and give definition as sharp at 20 miles as at 100 yards. Tf applied in warfare it is suggest'* i that the smoke screen for a battle fleet would be rendered useless and aircraft would be able to photograph battlefield fortifications while hidden in the cloud' Liners would be able to speed through the fog because they would know f he position of ships ahead. Scientists would search a vaster area of the uni The discover? mav ultimately be the means of deriding the existence of life ca the planets.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 258, 1 November 1932, Page 7
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