Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 60
nt conduct of the Brit-ish ministry it is supposed that they never reallyintended to give Fulton a fair opportunitv 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 were made, and… … **»^^ ^. 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 completelyin two ; in one…
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