REPORTED GERMAN INVENTION
A STARTLING STATEMENT,
AL MAGNET TO RENDER BATTLESHIPS HELPLESS.
United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, July 9.
The “Standard’s” Berlin correspondent states that a German hast patented a huge magnet, shaped like a cogwheel, connected by an electric cable with the shore, and that it is claimed to be able to throw a battleship out of her course and her machinery out of gear, thus rendering her guns useless.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2550, 10 July 1909, Page 5
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71REPORTED GERMAN INVENTION Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2550, 10 July 1909, Page 5
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