Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 912
aving hera complete wreck. A detailed account of the Oberon experiments appears in Engineering, xviii., 126 el seq. A large number of tests of torpedoes have been made by Gen. Abbott at the U. S. Army Torpedo School at Willetts Point, N. Y. The results of these, however, are kept secret. The… … 878 TORPEDO. cient to compress the bars to fully one-third of their length. (See Scientific American Supplement,No. 139.) Defense against Moored Torpedoes.—There are four principal methods of forcing a passage througha network of submarine torpedoes: first, the sending down of divers to search for…
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