Published Resources Details Letters Patent

Authors
Wood, W. W. W. and Lay, J. L.
Title
Improved apparatus for operating submarine shells or torpedoes
Imprint
United states Patent Office, 14 March 1865
Description

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 46,853.

Accession No.1289

Abstract

"Our invention consists of certain apparatus (fully described hereinafter) for so projecting from a vessel, submerging, and exploding submarine shells or torpedoes that their discharge may take place without danger to the apparatus itself, to the vessel from which the operations are conducted, or to those whose duty it is to manage the operations."

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