Group Captain Kumar Kirinde, whose chosen title is “Advent of the Cruise Missile” … conveying an article replete with photographic illustrations — which are mostly missing here.
From an idea of an “aerial torpedo” shown in a 1909 film to the modern-day cruise missiles. The idea of an “aerial torpedo” was shown in the 1909 British silent film The Airship Destroyer in which flying torpedoes controlled wirelessly are used to bring down airships bombing London.
In 1916, the American aviator Lawrence Sperry built and patented an “aerial torpedo”, the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, a small biplane carrying a TNT charge, a Sperry autopilot and barometric altitude control.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_missile and Google Imagesu
