Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 896
. The development has alreadycarried us from second-class torpedo-boats, up through boats of the first class. Fig. 1,torpedo dispatch vessels, torpedo gunboats, to torpedo cruisers and torpedo depot ships. For all naval warfare there is needed a torpedo possessing high speed, good range, as-… … Fig. 1.—Torpedo cruiser. a vessel running at high speed, Fig. 3, it must possess this paramount quality of maintaining the direction in whichit IS pointed. Sucha torpedo will also bethe most efficient foruse in defending ortaking the place offixed mines, and forother harbor de-fenses ; for…
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