Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1901 — Air Torpedo. [ARTICLE]

Air Torpedo.

The Swedish government has given 5,000 kroner ($1,340) to Major W. T. Unge for the purpose of making further experiments with the air torpedo invented by him. Major Unge’s invention is patented under the name of “the flying torpedo,” is intended to convey through the air large explosive charges for considerable distances, and looks like an elongated cannon shell. It is propelled through the air in the same manner as a rocket. In a separate compartment the torpedo contains some kind of slow-burning chemical composition, the propelling charge, which generates gases in large quantities. In the base of the shell is a turbine through which these gases escape, thus furnishing the motive power and cansing the shell to rotate around its axis.