Published Resources Details Letters Patent

Author
Haskins, C. D.
Title
Automatic steering device for torpedoes
Imprint
United States Patent Office, 318
Description

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,520. Application filed August 7 1897.

Accession No.1378

Abstract

"My invention relates to automatic steering devices for torpedoes; and it consists in means for controlling the rudder of the torpedo by a magnetic device subject to the determining influence of the vessel or object at which the torpedo may be aimed."