Inventions of the Great WarBond, A. Russell (Alexander Russell)
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Inventions of the Great War
Bond, A. Russell (Alexander Russell)
Inventions; World War, 1914-1918 -- Technology
The speedy British "Whippet" tank that can travel at a speed of
twelve miles per hour 120
The French high-speed "baby" tank 120
Section through our Mark VIII tank showing the layout of the
interior 121
A Handley-Page bombing plane with one of its wings folded
back 128
How an object dropped from the Woolworth Building would
increase its speed in falling 129
Machine-gun mounted to fire over the blades of the propeller 136
Mechanism for firing between the blades of the propeller 136
It would take a hundred horses to supply the power for a small
airplane 137
The flying-tank 144
An N-C (Navy-Curtiss) seaplane of the type that made the first
flight across the Atlantic 145
A big German Zeppelin that was forced to come down on French
soil 148
Observation car lowered from a Zeppelin sailing above the
clouds 149
Giant British dirigible built along the lines of a Zeppelin 156
One of the engine cars or "power eggs" of a British dirigible 156
Crew of the C-5 (American coastal dirigible) starting for
Newfoundland to make a transatlantic flight 157
The curious tail of a kite balloon 160
Observers in the basket of an observation balloon 160
Enormous range-finders mounted on a gun turret of an American
warship 161
British anti-aircraft section getting the range of an enemy
aviator 176
A British aviator making observations over the German lines 177
Radio headgear of an airman 192
Carrying on conversation by radio with an aviator miles away 192
Long distance radio apparatus at the Arlington (Va.) station 193
A giant gun concealed among trees behind the French lines 212
Observing the enemy from a papier-mâché replica of a dead horse 213
Camouflaged headquarters of the American 26th Division in
France 220
A camouflaged ship in the Hudson River on Victory Day 221
Complex mass of wheels and dials inside a German submarine 240
Surrendered German submarines, showing the net cutters at the
bow 241
Forward end of a U-boat 256
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