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Show reports of the trials of thU instrument they wore eminently successful, giving results superior even to those obtained from the Whitehead. The motive power is compressed air, acting directly from a reservoir upon the propeller without any assistance or intervention from machinery. machin-ery. The propulsion is effected by twin screws working inversely and giving a velocity greater and more continuous, it is contended, than any obtained in other torpedoes. One remarkable feature of this invention is the faculty of automatic auto-matic guidance, which enables it to avoid protective nets and shields, and to dive any distance before rising to give its blow. Exchange. Compressed Air Torpedo. Still another torpedo, this one the invention in-vention of an Austrian count, Bnona-eorsi Bnona-eorsi by name, has made its appearance in ' the European naval and. military igM. ecordjez to official and nrivato - " |