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[RADIO-CONTROLLED TORPEDO, WWI ERA; DEFENSE AGAINST U-BOATS, COASTAL DEFENSE; INVENTION AND PATENT DEVELOPMENTS] ARTHUR ENOCH ERICSON (spelling of last name used by him, though sometimes written by others as Erikson or Erickson), inventor, aspects of the radio torpedo for which he was awarded patents and attracted the interest of American, British, Canadian, Italian, French, and Russian military from the early years of the 20th century until after World War II…one letter from his patent attorney Samuel Owen Edmonds reports that the British Patent Office at the request of the British Admiralty and Army Council orders the "prohibition of the publication of communication in any way of the invention and application for a patent for it in any enemy or neutral country, and of application being made for the [patent] protection of the invention in any allied country or in any of the British Dominions"… "among radio men", Ericson's radio torpedo was preferred to Hammond's for its "simplicity, accuracy,… Read More