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- folio=010 date "1942-02-07".
- folio=010 isCitedBy Bradley_A._Fiske.
- folio=010 journal The_New_Yorker.
- folio=010 pages "10–11".
- folio=010 quote "Admiral Fiske first thought of the possibilities of the torpedoplane in 1910 while brooding over the problem of defending the Philippines. He reasoned that if airplanes got bigger, a group of them ... could be fitted out to carry torpedoes and attack any invading fleet. In 1912 he noticed that planes were getting bigger and worked out a device to accomplish his purpose.".
- folio=010 quote "He recalls that he remarked sweepingly at the time that he had invented not only a new weapon but a new method of warfare.".
- folio=010 quote "We called on Admiral Fiske one afternoon last week, but before doing so we read up briefly on his career, which marks him as one of the notable naval inventors of all time ... In addition to putting in a full term of active service, he found time to invent a hundred and thirty-odd improvements to naval equipment, the most far-reaching being the telescopic sight for ships' guns, which, we gathered, is now used on every warship in the world, and the torpedo-plane.".
- folio=010 quote "he idea for the telescopic sight came to him ... when he was a lieutenant which had the old open sights of that day ... Not long after, in 1890, he took out the first of several patents on telescopic sights.".
- folio=010 title "The Admiral's Chair".
- folio=010 url "http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1942-02-07#folio=010".