Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics : also, lives of distinguished European mechanics : together with a collection of anecdotes ... relating to the mechanic arts : illustrated by fifty engravings (1852)
Howe, Henry, 1816-1893, New York Museum of Science and Industry. Library · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 148
ce of five minutes causesthe explosion. Had the whole apparatus been brought to act upona ship at the same time, it must have occasioned prodigious de-struction. Mr. Bushnell contrived another ingenious expedient to effecthis favorite object. He fixed a large number of kegs, chargedfrith powder, to… … DESTRUCTION OF A BRITISH TENDER BY A TORPEDO. DAVID BUSHNELL, 143 in the night, to fall with the ebb on the shipping; -but the properdistance could not be well ascertained, and they were set adrifttoo remotely from the vessels, so that they were obstructed anddispersed by the ice. They approached,…
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