Published Resources Details Letters Patent
- Title
- Submarine projectile
- Imprint
- United States Patent Office, 3006
- Description
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 882,980. Application filed December 18 1907.
Accession No.1426
- Abstract
"This invention relates to a novel construction of shell or projectile having among other novel and useful features the peculiar function of penetrating the surface of a body of water when striking the same at an angle, and of maintaining its course through the water at a greater or lesser depth below the surface. In addition to this feature which gives the invention a value for submarine purposes, this projectile has the function of cutting its way through the water after submergence, and of regulating the extent of its submergence, without being diverted from a true course or trajectory…"