Published Resources Details Letters Patent
- Title
- Submarine torpedo
- Imprint
- United States Patent Office, 27 September 1887
- Description
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,570. Application filed March 10 1887.
Accession No.1339
- Abstract
"The casing of the torpedo is composed of two main cylindrical sections (the front section & the rear section) connected by a central section. The rear section id filled with a charge of rocket composition which in burning rapidly generates a gas which is ejected rearward and acts upon the water and drives the torpedo forward with great force through the water. The torpedo in its passage through the water is kept to its course by radially-arranged rudders pivoted in slots or an annular recess in the central solid section. Whilst the front section contains the warhead…"