Radio Controls Model Boat Carrying Explosive
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Radio-controlled torpedo boats driven silently toward enemy ships by a battery-operated propeller are suggested by U. S. Naval Reserve officer who has built a six-foot power boat that started, steered and stopped by high-frequency signals. A storage battery propels the boat at five miles an hour. Lieut. Henry W. Wickes, stationed at Floyd Bennett field in Brooklyn, has navigated his “crewless torpedo boat” by radio from a distance as great as eleven miles. In actual war operations a radio-controlled boat, loaded with explosives or with a torpedo at its bow, might be directed against an enemy warship, blowing it up as it collides with the hull. It could be guided by a transmitter on shore, in another ship or even in an airplane overhead.
- Title (Dublin Core)
- Radio Controls Model Boat Carrying Explosive
- Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
- Radio Controls Model Boat Carrying Explosive
- Language (Dublin Core)
- eng
- Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
- [+]World War II
- Date Issued (Dublin Core)
- 1940-10
- Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
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Popular Mechanics, v. 74, n. 4, 1940
- pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
- 561
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- Public Domain (Google digitized)
- Source (Dublin Core)
- Google books
- Archived by (Dublin Core)
- Enrico Saonara
- Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
- Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
- [+]United States of America
