Published Resources Details Letters Patent
- Title
- Improvement in torpedo-boats
- Imprint
- United States Patent Office.
- Description
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 211,301. Dated January 14, 1879; application filed December 19, 1878.
Accession No.1303
- Abstract
"My invention relates to such torpedo-boats as are controlled in their movement in the water by means of an electric wire or cable connecting the boat with the shore or other station, and which may be either self-propelled by means of an engine and operated by compressed air or gas, or towed by such boat as is shown in other patents granted me."