Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 62
t is supposed that they never reallyintended to give Fulton a fair opportunity to try ROBERT FULTON 53 the effect of his submarine engines. Their ob-ject may have been to prevent these devicesgetting into the hands of an enemy. Severalexperiments Avere made, and some of them werefailures, but on… … & i/lktl //:lll- Ml**- s Fulton Blowing Up a Danish Brig. of Pitt. The torpedo used on this occasion con-tained one hundred and seventy pounds of pow-der. In fifteen minutes from the time of startingthe machinery the explosion took place. It liftedthe brig almost entire and broke her…
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