Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 270
ssion, by friction, by electricity, or by some con-trivance for bringing chemicals into contact which act strongly upon eachother, and thus generate sufficient heat to ignite the charge. The instantof explosion may be determined by the contact of the torpedo with thehostile structure (in which case… … Fig. 107.—^ lib merged Torpedo, In the American Civil War the stationary torpedoes at first laid down-were self-acting, that is, they were so arranged as to explode when touchedby a passmg vessel. Such arrangements present the great disadvantagesof bemg as dangerous to friendly as to hostile ships.…
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