This was the prediction of a guy named John H. Hammond, a reputed inventor of note, on the Navy of the future. He could see the airplane as the coming thing in warfare and was predicting the value of torpedo bombers as a weapon against ships. Then he starts on some predictions.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn ... d-1/seq-1/
The crystal ball notion of the Navy from a hundred years ago
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