Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 283
romthe shore. Mr. Warner was on board the steamer, and the barque was300 yards astern. Five minutes after a signal had been made from theshore, the torpedo was caused to explode, striking the barque amidships,throwing up a large column of water and debris, shooting the mainmastclean out of the… … Fig. 121.—The Warner Experiment off Brighton. The stationary torpedoes of the kind mostly used in the AmericanCivil War were, as already stated, self-actittg; that is, they explodedwhen touched by a passing vessel. They would now be more generallycalled self-acting mines, and are to be…
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