Trippers on the Furness liner Queen of Bermuda last week were treated to a demonstration of a new aid to marinersa device which pierces fog and darkness to tell the navigator what obstacles lie near his ship. Commander Paul Humphrey Macneil calls the device a "fog-eye." To watch its first seagoing performance a group of U. S. and British naval observers, merchant marine experts, physicists made the trip to Bermuda. Lack of fog on the outbound voyage disappointed them. But whenever the Queen passed another ship the fog-eye, connected to a loudspeaker,...
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