Show SHARKS IN TORPEDO WORK suggestion that the great fish co do utilized in the naval service all sorts of queer devices are of fared the army board of ordnance and fortifications as engines of destruct tion one of the strangest eions of this kind yet presented to the consideration of the board plates the use of large fish prel prefer ably sharks for the propulsion of ae ab marine torpedoes according to the plan proposed a shark Is to be im prisoner in a tube at the rear end of the projectile and is to be controlled in its movements by the active aepli cation of wireless telegraphy in case the shark became 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 remark ably ingenious proposition emanated from the same fertile brain and con templates tem plated the employment employ men of ar balloons in any desired direction in this case also the birds harnessed to the aerial vehicles were to be con trolled in their movements by a tern 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 wireless telegraphy |