Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 276
g above it is a buoy shapedlike an inverted cone. This cone contains a mechanical arrangement ofsuch a nature that when it is struck by a passing vessel, an electric circuitis closed by bringing into contact two wires connecting the torpedo with avoltaic battery on shore. While the apparatus may… … Fig. 112.—Explosion of Whiteheads Torpedo, containing (fj lbs.of Gtm-Cotton. The employment of torpedoes develops, as a matter of course, a systemof defence against them. Nets spread across a channel will catch driftingtorpedoes, and stationary ones may be caused to explode harmlessly bynets…
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