Published Resources Details Letters Patent

Author
Giese, W.
Title
Improvements in submarine torpedoes
Imprint
United States Patent Office., 1879
Description

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 219,711. Dated September 16, 1879; application filed June 20, 1879.

Accession No.1307

Abstract


"The object of the invention is to simplify the construction and cost of self-propelling submarine torpedoes, by doing away with all the complicated mechanism heretofore employed in the propulsion of such, and in arming the torpedo with a spear-head having two or more blades."

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