Published Resources Details Letters Patent
- Title
- Gyroscopic steering-gear for torpedoes
- Imprint
- United States Patent Office, 3139
- Description
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 894,838. Application filed April 30 1907.
Accession No.1428
- Abstract
"This invention relates to gyroscopic steering mechanism for automobile torpedoes. It is designed to adapt the torpedo to "wide-angle aim" so that the torpedo may be aimed in a direction diverging by a wide angle from the course which it is designed to take, so that it must first steer in the arc of a circle through a number of degrees for which the instrument is preliminary set before steering in a substantially straight or direct course toward the target. The present invention is designed to facilitate the preliminary setting of the gyroscopically-controlled device to prepare the torpedo for such wide-angle aim…"