Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1914 — Discharge Lighted Projectiles. [ARTICLE]

Discharge Lighted Projectiles.

Some suggestive experiments Wf» been made on German warships ski lighted projectiles, which ft is thought may take the place of the electric searchlight The which *s> filled with calcium carbide, is firs* from a cannon, and since I la lighter than water after striking it come* bathe surface. During its immersion water is automatically adsfitieg. .*•# produces acetylene gas, which karsts with an illumination equal to that of 3,000 candles.