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W " v Once in contact it explodes not tverving to riht or hf!. knolt -i ' o Q 'fllA TTcilri'n TlClllc 4"ria I , J I ' . -, with force severs! times Jovn tea ilh Ivelve-imh bur ' ;i, a ine r aicon i rails me i i , rter than tnt frUnK 1, . ,i . Aimed like gun , and then gtiided by sound is this terrify terri-fy ins, new torpedo of the skies known as the Baruch bloodhound. blood-hound. It is driven with liquid . air held in thermos bottles. , ' Equipped with resonators, it is tuned to the sound of an airplane air-plane engine, just a one tunes in with radio, and, its sppar-atus sppar-atus filed, it will set off in pursuit pur-suit of that motor and, ignoring all others, continues on in its ' -Nemesis-like pursuit until it .reaches tha desired target Once in contact it explodes with a force several times greater than TNT - I "And They SaU It IVastheLadlVar!" NCLAND ho lut I.;,m. '.. J gigantic nc9 mbmaj'm ca'.'cj th X-l end ifjcj tha "myl'-'y tlup." which U tail to he one I.' u-tani u-tani torn greater in di'acrmrnl MnJ more deadly than any $uhmaiine the world hat over fnottn. It it deiigned 'to carry 2-i'jkV g-tni. With her great ipted and g jh-power jh-power tht craft turpaaci anji urja- teat Jiip afloat. United Statet Army ejtrt art na demonstrating nev forlv-ton . "ar tant novn at "t,?ik V'l'.l." Thete land batlh-hh'pt carry lr sized guru on their (n(s. Tao ef theto tankt, tent eg tinst a j.irctt o 1 not twening to riht or left, kno.'t-d down tree with treelve-imh. bur's, riling over trunlft, roott and bra topi at rutlilcttly. at m harrow rlJct over itubhlt. And now an American irrventor hat brought forth a riJcrkst bloodhound blood-hound of th air guided toLly hv . mechanical tound devicet tliat n ill follow an) airplane no matter how H iworvet or Volplane. At the torpedo of th water crathet against m teathip rending it to pieces, to will the torpedo of th ait rend Ui battleship of th iky. New Aerial Torpedo That X Follows Its Prey Unerringly ' : as the Falcon Trails the -V : Heron May Frustrate the A Attempt to Make Airplanes . Supreme as War Weapons . . . Th inventor of the aerial torpedo. Dr. Sidney Morton Baruch, had his ' t launch against Germany's cloud-land fleets .when the end cameand the Kaiser's ' goose-stepping goose-stepping hordes . headed for horn ruahei through ths turbine snd turns the propellers at a high rat. When the torpedo strikes th enmy airplane a firing pis Is tvleaied to discharge dis-charge a small blank eartridft into a can containing carbon bnulphxle, which is placed within the liquid air chamber. ' The intense heat of this exploding chemical chem-ical simultaneously explodes tht remaining re-maining liquid air. The remit Is a tor-' tor-' rifle exploeion having several time th fore that would be produced by an equal amount of TNT. Jn event ef a failure of any part that would prevent the device from striking Hs mark, the device will dertroy Kelf when a certain critical point in pressure it reached that la, when the pressure of the liquid sir is on ths decline. At such a time the firing pia will automat-kally automat-kally set off th blank cartridge In th Th latest addition to our.warehips of. tha air. th Barling Bar-ling bomber, which dwarfs all other henvier-than-air craft, would, it is believed, be powerless against tha uncanny destroyer, ' which - follows it prey with cold - blooded precision , . . - ' ' rpo rn broer minds the terrifying X nstwe e this newest death-dealing ' intention,' let us assume that you are firing ia an airplane pursued by a meeheaiata which will blow it into a skewer of unrecogalaable bits upon eon-tact. eon-tact. Tee dive, volplane and make the machine ma-chine do ali the stunts that an airplane caa do, and still ths monster tenaciously pursues, following your maneuvers with machine-Ilk precision. ' Turn to ths left, it follows intsntly. - Mount skyward, 1t abruptly chasges rt ' course aad fellows, at th aama time gatatng in speed until its ugly nose is ( wfthin a few feet of your plane, bringing bring-ing eel-tain death. ' Such Is. the performance of the Baruch Woodhotmd of ta air,' as it has been called by those whe understand Hs operations. op-erations. '. This aerial torpedo doe aU .that a water torpedo will do aad more. . The water torpedo Is blind snd helpleaa, and ' arast be aimed to striks its object. Not So whh th aerial torpedo. It is neither blind nor deaf, and It exercises a control ver ttaelf more accurately than could a attained if it were under the guidance at human being. - . Th aerial torped la the, invention of Or. Sidney Morten Baruch, whose note- . worthy seesmpUshments m the scientific field haws wen for him the title of "Edison "Edi-son of th West" Dr. Baruch is a member mem-ber ef the Royal Society. The aerial torpedo I a wartim invention and, like . many other wartime inventions of note.' th details ef Hs operation hsv been kept secret until this time. U was not a war dream, but aa actuality- device, tsd aad proved, sad had th war aitua- , bon continued aautber yoar the Germsn fliers would have found themselves engaged en-gaged in conflict with n of the most ingsnieas and terrtbl inventions of the age. There is so this; fanciful or impractical im-practical about the baruch aerial tor- ' peso, as axparioiears with it prove. Its actions are based en veh-knowa physi-ral physi-ral laws, and few obstacles staod in ths I way of fts immediate epn'.irstion. A glance at th machine shows that i k . , ' Its shape is somewhat like the ordinary ' water torpedo. However, instead of being ' driven with ordinary compressed air, as ' Is ths case with water torpedoes, 'it is driven with ' liquid air. Liquid air . is compressed and refrigerated until it reaches a temperature in th neighborhood neighbor-hood ef 400 degrees below sere, Fahrenheit. Fahren-heit. At this temperature K is a psle blue liquid that is constantly boiling and passing back into the gaseous state. , ' ' . . ' ' ' yOU caa gain soma idea of the enormous expensive power of liquid air when you compare it with the expansive ex-pansive poidhr of water when changed to steam. Aa a steam engine, a cubic inch of water in the boiler Is changed into a cubic foot of steam. In the caa of liquid air, a - single cubic inch t .equivalent to 800 cubic inches of air at ordinary pressur. Thus we see that liquid air hss sn expansive power five and one-half times as great as that of water. In a few pounds of liquid air w havs stored up an enormous driving fore which, if released under controlled con-trolled conditions, would b able to provide pro-vide several hundred horsepower for a short time. The liqnid air is held ia the torpedo ia ordinary thermos bottles. Sine it hs a boiling point several hundred degrees below xero, K expends aad pssees mts the-vaporous 4Ut with great rapidity. ' Advantage is takes of it power of expansion ex-pansion by allowing H to pass through a modified stesm turbine. THE moat inrenius part' of th Baruch aerial torpedo is its automatic-control apparatus the part that gives it sn slmost human "intelligence." Its epera-tioa epera-tioa is bawd ea the principle of resonance. reson-ance. ' A body is resonant with the sound hea it has ths san-s natural period as the sound. No two bodies are exactly alike. Consequently an airplane motor has a peruiiax vibration all its two, and if a mUJion motors were con-ttructed con-ttructed wHhevt the slightest cbacge ia rictniU nf morhtnicai design, eaih motor wcuid bave iu own louni period. Baruch builds bis aer sl torpedo in such a way s -v i I ji mu ..w - ' V J . I j , when a certain critical point in pressur 'i n 'J Jt reached that is, when the pressurs of ' . ths liquid sir is on ths decline. At I such a tim th firing pia will automa- k-.lly set off th blsnk cariridgs in th ' 1 . ,Th Baruch aerial torpedo looks very I W much lik it ster of th sea, except that W ' propeller bladea are much longer and ' V ' V I wider 1 ,Th Baruch aerial torpedo looks very much lik it sister of tha sea. except that the propeller bladea are much longer and . wider 1 ' that K can be tuned to ths sound of sn airplane engine, and one it ia toned sad It apparatus fixed, tt will eet & la. pursuit of that particular motor, ignoring ig-noring li others that may coma withia its range. It travels at a prodigious speed, snd Is able to over ha al the fast- " est machines. , In the steel noae of the torpedo there' too placed four opeainga. These are connected to what is known a UsmheHs resonators. . It is thee rasonator that are toned to th period ef a passing airplane. air-plane. At the end of each resonator there Is placed ami 11 metal diaphraghm which is caused to vibrate st ths frequency fre-quency Jot which ths resonator is set. , When a diaphragm is actuated K causes electric contact to be made. This contact con-tact closes sa electric circuit, which ia turn controls ths guiding fins er rudders rud-ders located on the tall. Each one ef ' ths resonators causes a certain movement move-ment of th rudder to be mad, so that th devise caa be sent to any point of th compass or sp and down when H receives th proper isa pulse. , , If th sound originates to th right of th device, the resonator closest to ths sound functions, and th machine will swerve sharply in th direction from which th sound comet. In such a ess th other resonators would be more or less ineffective. They would only be thrown into operation when the direction ef the sound would ehsnge. ..When th device Is aiming straight a its mark, all four resonators are actuated aad tha rudder or steering device remains ia a neutral position. . Th liquid sir turbine Is directly connected con-nected to the high propeller screws," which pull the devic forward. t ' The "bloodhound ef the sir" I aimed in the aaa manner as a gun nd launched in the ssme way that tha water torpedo Is launched, ssv that it is pointed upwsrd at ita mark. First ths ; . - vibrstory period of - th spproerhlng airplane is accurstsly snd , quickly measured. . ' With this Informstion ths operator makes a' quick adjustment of the Hem-holts Hem-holts resonators, setting them st a point where they will be ia tune with the vibrations set up by the spproaching enemy machine. This done, a trigger is pulled, which discharges a small shotgua shell in the tank, which in turn breaks . the liquid air container and allows ths liquid air to expand. The released air can ef carbon bisulphide and the remain Ing liquid air will destroy the device, preventing It from doing possible injjrr to those who may be standing on tie ground, and at the same time preventing any likelihood of Hs falung into enemy bands. ' Numerous experiments conducted v. : h the Bsruch aerial torpedo during the war proved conclusively thst H was sn opera rive device cspabls of doinj ! t the things that were claimed fur it lr it inventor. j, CesvTKat. lets, w ream Liiir c n |