Published Resources Details Letters Patent

Author
Hicks, H. F.
Title
Submarine torpedo
Imprint
United States Patent Office, 29 August 1882
Description

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 263,407. Application filed March 9, 1882.

Accession No.1322

Abstract

"My invention relates to that class of torpedoes designed to be fired from a gun or hurled from a barrel fixed below the water-line in a torpedo boat; and my invention has for its object to maintain as far as possible a high velocity in the torpedo after it is fired from the hull-barrel."

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