A new method for mailing letters on ships tested by the U. S. Navy
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A new method for mailing letters on ships tested by the U. S. Navy
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Mail Your Letters in the Ocean
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ARE you annoyed at the very poor
mail service we are getting now?
Then join the Navy. Write your
letters on board ship, and a seaplane
will come along, grab them up, and
rush them to port at the rate of sixty
miles an hour. That is the Navy's
latest plan and it has been tried out
successfully.
The mail is collected and put into
two sixty-pound waterproof bags,
and the bags are then tied to-
gether with a fifty-foot rope. Two
rowboats—each having a ten-foot
mast—are stationed in the water
about thirty feet apart. The rope
is stretched across the masts, and
fits into notches in their tops.
Ten feet of rope, with the mail-
bag on the end, hangs down into
each rowboat.
The aviator flies over, trailing
behind him a rubber cable with a
four-pronged grappling-iron on
the end. The grappling-iron
clutches the rope between the
rowboats, and drags it and the
bags away. The cable is attached
to a drum, and so the aviator
simply winds the drum to hoist
the bags on board.
As we see opposite the railroads
too are trying their best to im-
prove conditions. If the Army
will add its help to the Navy and
the railroads, the Post Office will
simply have to improve.
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-07
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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45
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 95, n. 1, 1919
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