The Archive · 1926

A Boy Scientist of

JAPAN — New Method of Producing Smoke Screens Tokyo, Dee. 7.

As the result of two years' offer "boy" of the Higher polytechnic School at Kanazawa City, named Minoru Nakamoto, has succeded in inventing a new' method of producing a veil of smoke for military use.

According to this invention, a certain the liquid emits a white smoke in contact with air, whereas the old veil of smoke was produced by' ignition. It is said that the new smoke-screen has an efficacy five times that of the old one, and that Nanamoto's invention will bring! about a revolution in the national! defence of the world—Toho.

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