Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 269
Fig. io6.—Harveys Torpedo. Working the Brakes. TORPEDOES. T^HE notion of destroying ships or other structures by explosions of gun-J- powder, contained in vessels made to float on the surface of the water,or submerged beneath it, is not of very modern origin. Two hundred andfifty years ago the…
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