Marine Torpedo Service.
Description:
Patent for a new and improved torpedo system. This design is "to so place and connect the torpedoes that they may be drawn out of the way of friendly vessels, so that they will automatically resume positions that will interfere with the passage of [unfriendly] vessels . . . [and] the invention consists of a series or system of torpedoes that are connected to guide-lines that pass under anchored sheaves and lead to a point where the lines are all connected to a single manipulating-line . . . whi…
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Date:
December 7, 1886
Creator:
Aylesworth, Charles Samuel
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department