Title

Interesting Torpedo Trial

In

The New York Times

Imprint

12 August 1891, p. 8

Description

Accession No.2114

Abstract

'A private exhibition of the working of a Sims-Edison torpedo was given yesterday afternoon at the Government fortifications at Willet's Point. The weapon used was the new thirty-one-foot Sims-Edison designed to carry an explosive charge of 500 pounds…'

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