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 172
: Gentlemen, this is a charged torpedo, with which, precisely inits present state, I mean to blow up a vessel. It contains 170pounds of powder; and if I were to suffer the clockwork to runfifteen minutes, I have no doubt but that it would blow this fortifucatior to atoms.1 The circle round Mr.… … ROBERT FULTON. 165 casion to remark, how true it was that fear frequently arose fromignorance. On the 20th of July, 1807, he blew up with a torpedo, in theharbor of New York, a large hulk brig, which had been preparedfor the purpose. This experiment only served to prove to the in-habitants of New…
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