Published Resources Details Letters Patent
- 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."