A WWI Diary That Never Was

WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.

Friday, April 19, 2013

Torpedo Hydroaeroplane.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 19, 1913:
Brazil to Test New Device, Invented by an Electrician.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 18.— The Navy Department of Brazil will soon commence practical tests of a new aerial invention, the work of an electrical engineer, Torcuato Lamaro, consisting of a torpedo float attached to a hydroaeroplane.
Satisfactory results are said to have been obtained by the inventor in his preliminary experiments. Those who have witnessed the tests say it will prove as successful as its inventor claims, and revolutionize warfare.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Friday, April 19, 2013

Torpedo Hydroaeroplane.

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