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Aerial Projectile and Launching Mechanism Therefor

Description: This document is a patent for the invention of the Aerial Projectile and Launching Mechanism Therefor. According to its inventor Frank M. Bell, the object of this mechanism is to fire aerial projectiles or torpedoes more accurately at their intended target. This mechanism can be called an anti-observation balloon/zeppelin weapon and it would see some usage by the Allied air forces during this conflict.
Date: October 10, 1916
Creator: Bell, Frank M.
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Tunneling-Machine

Description: Patent for a horizontal tunneling machine comprised of two different drill mechanisms - an inner and an outer drill stem - that could be operated separately and at different speeds, and adjusted while the drills were running. The drills make use of the tricone drill bit invented by Hughes in 1909, and could drill through hard rock more effectively than previous mechanisms.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hughes, Howard Robard
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Magazine-Projectile

Description: Patent for a new type of projectile that includes an initial explosion followed by multiple other explosions from smaller bombs contained inside the larger projectile. The projectile is described as a "novel and improved instrument of destruction" (lines 10-11).
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.
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Armor Unit for Gunners

Description: Patent for armor that can be mounted on gunners units..
Date: November 28, 1916
Creator: Spence, John J.
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Wheeled Stretcher or Litter

Description: Patent for wheeled stretcher used to transport wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
Date: November 21, 1916
Creator: Doole, Thomas P.
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Coupling.

Description: Patent for a coupling to be used by military vehicles, unique in its "simplicity, rapidity in attachment and detachment, strength and durability" (lines 19-21).
Date: May 24, 1921
Creator: Speece, Russell. W.
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Protector for Detonator-Caps.

Description: Patent for a detonator cap that acts as a "protecting device...to seal the inner end of the cap into which the adjacent end of the fuse is projected in use." (lines 13-16)
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Dillard, George L.
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Automobile Projectile.

Description: Patent for self-propelled vehicle with means for reducing a barrier such as a wire entanglement.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Elrod, Henry E.
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