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Show FLIES LIKE A BIRD. Aerial Torpedo Which Acts Like a Thing of Life. According to a Utica, N. Y., dispatch, dis-patch, Professor Carl Myers, a balloon maker of Frankfurt, has constructed an electrical aerial torpedo, which is De exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Pur-chase exposition. The aerial torpedo flies like a thing of life, is driven by two aluminum screw blades, making 2,000 revolutions, and rotated by an electric motor which obatins its power from an ordinary incandescent lighting current of 130 volts. The movements are directed by two aeroplanes acting -as ruddeps- moving the vessel up down right or left, in circles, spirals' or cyloids, as a bird flies. All these evolutions are under control of a distant dis-tant operator, who moves an index over contact points on a dial switchboard switch-board to which the vessel instantly responds. |