Aerial Searchlight

Title (Dublin Core): Aerial Searchlight
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Anti-aircraft
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): One Unwlecome Way of Greeting Enermy Aeroplanes; Caption 1: To guard the shores of Long Island, New York, agains aerial attacks the goverment has installed a five hundred million-candle-power serachlight on the aviation field at Hempstead. The light is to be used in cooperation with anti-aircraft guns, to locate and destroy any invading enemy craft; Caption 2: To test the searchlight, aviators will go up in biplanes, followed by "enemy" craft. The huge light will "find" the enemy, after which our aviators will emerge from the darkness and give chase. If any of the enemy escape, our men are supposed to follow them beyond the searchlight radius until they are captured.
Contributor (Dublin Core): Photo Central News (photo)
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): World War I
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1917-04
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly v. 90, n. 4, 1917
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 490
Rights (Dublin Core): Public Domain
Archived by (Dublin Core): Besleu Dinu; Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core): United States of America; Long Island