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The Seattle Star
Seattle, King County, Washington
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New York inquiries on Sept. 18 at Thomas A. Edison's plant about reports of his torpedo-deflecting device were silenced under the Espionage Act. The rumor came from American liner passengers seeing a torpedo veer away; device reportedly tested successfully on destroyers and merchant ships.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 18.-Inquiries at the plant of Thomas A. Edison as to a published report that Edison had invented a contrivance to deflect torpedoes, were greeted with silence today.
William Maxwell, vice president of the Edison corporation, merely pointed to a sign over the entrance to the laboratories stating that any employe giving information as to work being done would be arrested and prosecuted in accordance with provisions of the espionage act.
Wm. Meadowcraft, secretary to Edison, said Edison was not in his laboratory and said he did not know where he was.
Publication of the invention by Edison followed reports brought here by passengers of an American liner, who said that a torpedo fired at their ship suddenly leaped out of the water and turned aside as it drew near to the vessel. The report published in a New York paper said the deflecting device had been tried on several destroyers and merchantmen with success.
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Sept. 18
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Inquiries at Thomas A. Edison's plant regarding a report of his invention to deflect torpedoes were met with silence due to the Espionage Act. The report originated from passengers on an American liner who observed a torpedo leap out of the water and turn aside near their ship. The device was said to have been successfully tried on several destroyers and merchantmen.