Published Resources Details Letters Patent

Author
Tucker, T.
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…"

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