Show SHARKS IN TORPEDO WORK suggestion that the great fish do da utilized in the naval service all sorts ot of queer devices are offered the army board 0 ordnance and fortifications as ennines ot of destruction one ot of the strangest suggestions of 0 this kind yet presented to the consideration ot of the board contemplates the use ot of large fish preferably sharks tor for the propulsion ot of submarine torpedoes according to tho the plan proposed a shark Is to be imprisoned in a tube at the rear end ot of the projectile and Is to fb be con controlled strolled trolled in its movements by the active application of w wireless ir el e ss t telegraphy el e g r ap h y in case e th the e s shark h ar k b became e c a m e re restless and attempted to swim away on his own account it was to be given an electric shock and in that way kept on its course until the torpedo had reached its target another remarkably ingenious proposition emanated from the same fertile brain and contemplated tem plated the employment ot of war balloons in any desired direction in this case also the birds harnessed to the aerial vehicles were to be controlled in their movements by a system of wireless telegraphy these balloons were to be provided with torpedoes or bombs which could be dropped at any desired point by the use of 0 wireless telegraphy |