| LATEST BOMB DESTROYERS Eccentric device for deflecting bombs - looks like whirling outsized house mop. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5551 |
| Catalog #: | 260605 | |
| Clip Number: | 260605-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 41/10 | |
| Timecode: | 01:36:50 - 01:37:32 | |
| Location: | US | |
| Year Shot: | 1941 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INVENTIONS: Testing LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA WEAPONS: Misc WORLD WAR TWO, MILITARY: Weapons | |
| Description: | "Latest in Bomb Destroyers". Various shots of inventors testing eccentric device for deflecting bombs in a field. Device consists of rubbery tentacles attached to spinning disc, various cogs and belts power it. The device is only a small model, C/U of diagram of full scale bomb destroyer protecting the Panama canal. The inventors show how it works by throwing stones and firing small bombs. The whirling tentacles explode the missiles before they reach their target. | |


