Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1911 — Aerial Torpedoes. [ARTICLE]

Aerial Torpedoes.

Lieutenant-Colonel Muge, of the Swedish army, is credited with the invention of aerial torpedoes. These torpedoes are very light, and it is said .that they will travel for a distance of about three miles. They can be made to explode either by contact or by means of clockwork. They are launched by means of a special apparatus with an explosive weighing rather over two and one-half pounds. When launched the torpedo travels at the rate of fifty meters the second; but the celerity is soon Increased to three hundred metors, the meter being thir-ty-one inches. Experiments are shortly to be made with this engine of destruction at Krupp's works, where there are the apparatus and one hundred torpedoes.