Some time ago an Italian engineer, Signor Menotti Nanni, submitted to a naval committee the invention of a strong-safe —unsinkable in the case of a steamer being wrecked. The experiment, though successful, was not taken up enthustastically. Now he has presented a new type of box. with great improvements, and the latest experiments were recently carried out by the Navy Department in the Atlantic. The inventor shut himself up in the case at the time of the experiment. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The World's News (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 1955), Sat 5 Jul 1919, Page 1
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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