Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 277
The length is 5 ft. and the depth if ft, while the breadth isonly 6 in. Within this wooden case is another water-tight case made of TORFEjJOES. 235 thick sheet copper, from the top of which two very short wide tubes passupwards to what we may term the deck of the wooden case. These arethe apertures… … Fig. 113.—Explosion of ^^i lbs. of Gnn-Cotton in yj feet of Water. occupied by a copper tube, g, Fig. 115, which passes the entire depth, andis soldered to the top and bottom of the copper case, so that the interior ofthe tube has no communication with the body of the torpedo, the principalcharge…
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