Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — Priest Invents Protective Device. [ARTICLE]

Priest Invents Protective Device.

One of the Episcopal clergy of Maryland, RSvr L W.^A.Crawford-Frost of Baltimore, who already has several Inventions to his credit, has recently invented a device for the protection of merchant vessels against torpedoes fired froin submarines. This Is designed purely for defensUe purposes, and is said to be of a simple and inexpensive nature. He has sent drawings of it to Thomas A. Edison and to- the naval consulting board, and is offering it to the governments of the United States, France and England.—Living Church.