Demonstration of an Austro-Hungarian Searchlight M.15a. The church tower being lit up by the light beam is 1.5 kilometers away. ca. 1916 [681×960]

Comments

1. corgibiscuits

   A person could be forgiven for mistaking this as a scene from an old film of War of the Worlds or something. Very cool picture.

2. ApeTwin

   Amazing! This is 104 years old and boy did they have some lumens back in the day.