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 900
e, which, when it enters behind the torpedo, ejects it withsufficient force to keep it from taking the water until it is 30 ft. from the ship. The entiretime from pulling the firing lanyard until the torpedo leaves its tube is but little over onesecond, most of which is taken up by the torpedo… … Pig. 6.—Howell torpedo. valves The motive power is compressed air in a flask 8 ft. long, the engine case formingthe after end of the flask. There is a single direct-acting engine for each screw. The pro-peller shafts are geared to the crank shafts in the proportion of 3 to 1. 1 he after section—the…
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