Published Resources Details Letters Patent

Author
Hall, M. E.
Title
Auto-mobile torpedo
Imprint
United States Patent Office, 7 August 1888
Description

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 387,353. Application filed August 1 1887.

Accession No.1340

Abstract

"The object is to provide an automatic fish-torpedo which, when propelled through the water, will take a course at a predetermined and approximately constant depth. A further object is to provide a torpedo, which will right itself when tipped from its upright position. A still further object is to provide a torpedo which will clear nets and obstructions and always explode beneath the bottom of a vessel."

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