Tries New Gunnery Device.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 2, 1912:
British Admiralty Experiments with Fire Director for Battleships.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Dec. 1.— Winston Churchill at Portland to-day witnessed experimental firing by the battleship Thunderer, fitted with Sir Percy Scott's fire director, and by other battleships not fitted with the appliance. Importance attaches to the tests, as they will largely determine whether all battleships shall be fitted with Scott's direct control.
    The main feature of the system is that it enables a dreadnought to hit her opponent a knockout blow by discharging her broadside in such fashion that ten 1,250-pound armor-piercing shells strike the enemy's side at the same instant in close proximity to one another. One blow of this nature would cripple the strongest warship afloat.