Encouraged by the resounding success of the Army's appeal for needed inventions (TiME, Sept. 6, 1943), the Navy last week authorized the National Inventors Council to publish a list of 25 naval needs. Some of them: ¶A shockproof, non-parachute aerial delivery container, cheap enough to be thrown away after one drop. A light to mark beaches, which will work on light weight rechargeable batteries, be visible from 5,000 yards at sea. ¶ A method of welding light-gauge aluminum, "of particular importance since aluminum lifeboats and rafts are currently of riveted construction due to lack of a...
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