Thomas Edison's plan for disguising merchant vessels, 1917
Two photographs showing the camouflage of a merchant ship by American inventor Thomas Edison. These photographs were part of a report Edison sent to then US secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels about experiments in making ships less visible to enemies.
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