Title

Notes: A Self-Propelled Torpedo

In

Engineering

Imprint

vol. 39, 13 February 1885, p. 169

Description

Accession No.2384

Abstract

'At the recent Electrical Exhibition at Philadelphia, the Ordnance Department of the Navy showed an extensive torpedo equipment, including a Lay-Haight torpedo, propelled by a reservoir of compressed carbonic acid gas [carbon dioxide], operating a small Brotherhood engine which drives the screw. The torpedo is navigated, and the charge exploded by means of a keyboard through a single wire.'

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Inventions

• The Lay-Haight Torpedo (c. 1880 - )