The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-26
ANOTHER INVENTOR u
AERIAL T0aPED0ES
Young Man In Hoi,okcn Has One ~
BE Controlled BY
Wireless.
WILL GO ROUND CoRNERs
Inventor Says Henry Ford Began Talk.
| Ing About Aerial Torpedocs Soon A..
ter Hobokcn Paper Printed Story
Telling of His Device.

New York. Sept 25.--A young man
named George +. Russell came out Of
Hoboken today to show Professor Her
schcl c. Parker, one time Nemesis Of
DR. Cook. of North Pole fame. some,
t photographs Of hrs new wireless con-
{ trolled aeroplane torpedo. Also the
young man bore an article from HO-l
boken newspaper describing the tor
pedo and wanted to know If Professor
Parker didn't think it queer that short
ly after its publication Henry Ford
should have talked about what fns
thing just such torpedo would be.
That opened a subject of discussion
to which Professor Parker warmed In
view of his discussion with Mr.. Ford
about which of them really incubated
the idea of a mosquito fleet of SUBJ
marines manned by chauffeurs and
manned with popular size torpedoes.
to repel invasions. So Professor Par
ker and the young inventor launched
into an enthusiastic and absorbed dis
cussion of the possibilities OF about
how many pieces would be left OF q
bombarding fleet after the Parker baby
submarines and the Russell fitting
torpedoec got through with 1t.
Says Ford Grabbing Their Idea.
Well said the inventor to report.
ers. here she is."--extending a photos
with the sting OF death that Henry
Ford talks about. The Hoboken papers
printed all about it while ago-then
Henry Ford began talking about wires
less torpedoes"
The picture showed what looked not
unlike pictures of a marine torpedo
with fms a tail and platform super
/ imposed over the round. blunt nose. or
/ head
hea LIT f,,,.r
+ four years flying it in my kitchen and
attic" went on Russell. I've got IL
trained SO IL will go around corners
and ! can control it by wireless. You
mustn't ask me how the wireless works
on the spring motor, that's my secret
II haven't applied for a patent be-
cause didn't want nay secret to coma
out. Nobody knows it now but bar
Der over In Hoboken. No. I don't know
/ If he's a German"
I'll tell you what. though" Mr. Rus-
sell went I'D like TO have Henry
i Ford take this up or have the governs
ment take 1t up, but 1t they don't, why
there's some one else who's Interested
/ l wrote Henry Ford Thursday that II
he wanted to give this wireless tor
pedo to the United States he had bet
| ter speak before the first of October
/ I sent the letter through Thomas A.
1
val board of Inventions 1t ought to
reach Ford all right
/, What is money to Henry Ford, \
/ Mr. Russell asked eagerly why I'd
make him famous IL he takes me up..,
would Save the Nation
I I'D think he would Jump at tho
chance" Professor Parker interjected.
! Henry Ford could take a regular
i inventor like you and save the nation.
j If he would
/ Then Mr.. Russell went on to explain
! to the reporters just what his "skeeter''
of the air would look like 1t win
/ be seven feet, two inches long and i
foot thick at the head and five inches
at the tail It's speed will be $50
/ miles an hour and 1t will carry $50
pounds OF explosives.
/ Il really think this aerial torpedo
will eventually be a success" COM
mented DR. Parker.