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 914
d of the run. The torpedo can either be projected from a tube by compressed air, or can be launched by handby simply starting the engine. The former is the method adopted for use from a ship or submarinebattery, and is shown in Fig. 4140. The latter is the plan adopted for use from small boats.… … allow. Fig. 4140 represents the lavmching-tube as fitted to the Austrian vessel Gemse. It is pro-vided at its outer end with a conical door, worked by means of a strap-hinge and a lanyard. Insideof the dead-wood is a gate working vertically by means of gearing; the inner end of the tube isalso…
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