Published Resources Details Letters Patent
- Title
- Submarine torpedo-boat
- Imprint
- United States Patent Office, 30 March 1886
- Description
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,096, Application filed November 3 1885
Accession No.1334
- Abstract
"Our invention relates to the class of submarine torpedo-boats of the type that is controlled in its movement from a point without the boat and connected with it by an electric conductor; and our improvement consists in the devices for submerging the boat to insure its safety from projectiles; in the means for keeping the boat on an even keel; in the details of the construction of the engine by which the boat is moved; in the devices for securing safety in handling the boat when charged; in the automatic device for mixing the chemicals used to heat and expand the gas used as a motive power, and in details of the construction and combination of the several parts of the boat and its contents…"