Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1915 — torpedo and boat operated BY WIRLESS TO BE TESTED [ARTICLE]

torpedo and boat operated BY WIRLESS TO BE TESTED

John Hays Hammond, 26, Creates Device That Would Make America Impregnable, Experts Say. Fresh Water Cove, Mass.—ls the tests to be made here are satisfactory, the United States will soon have the chance to acquire the most terrible agent of warfare so far produced. Almost as remarkable is the fact that the new war instrument is the invention of a young man just 26 years old, who has solved a problem on which military scientists have been engaged for years. The young inventor is John Hays Hammond, Jr., of Gloucester, and his invention is known as the wireless torpedo and a wireless boat, both of which can be driven a given distance without motive power other than that which can be transmitted from a powerful power station on shore. For the last year the Government has had two army officers stationed at the laboratory of young Hammond watching his experiments. Now that the devices have been perfected, young Hammond is to make his first public tests of their efficiency very soon. In the preliminary tests that have been made Hammond has demonstrated that: he is able, by the use of wireless rays alone, with the greatest ease to drive a huge torpedo, laden with 4,000 pounds of explosive, in any direction, at will, for a distance of 28 miles. Jt is figured that with several hundred of these scattered along the American seacoast he could make this country immune from any attack by vessels from the sea. The torpedoes develop a terriffic speed and cannot be veered from their course which serves to make this instrument of war all the more deadly. . - < Mrs. Gadder—" Amanda Brown told Sue Perkins that Lwas a sneak and aUers prying into other people’s affairs.” • ' • " - Hrs. Blabber—“ How do you know?” Mrs. Gadder—“ Heard ’em over the telephone. I always listen when thenj two cats is talking together.” ;