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Scientific American, Vol. 87, No. 10 (September 1902) (1902)

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An illustration from Scientific American, Vol. 87, No. 10 (September 1902), 1902, leaf 4
ing guncotton charges compressed. By this means, all the water is forced in shaft sinking for torpedoes, shells, submarine mines, etc., has been out and it carries the air with it, through perfora- The rapidity of boring naturally fluctuates with the devised by the New Explosives Company, Ltd., of… … ated by means of a hydrostatic ram situated mold where the guncotton is forced into TORPEDO DISCHARGE TUBE ; VIEW SHOWING BREECH CLOSED READY at one side of the tube. When the spoou its desired ultimate form, by the hydraulic FOR FIRING. has been run out, the ram. The container, with launching of…

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