Published Resources Details Letters Patent
- Title
- Steering mechanism for torpedoes
- Imprint
- United States Patent Office, 16 June 1896
- Description
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,235. Application filed December 12 1894.
Accession No.1365
- Abstract
"The present invention consists of a steering device for torpedoes, which is arranged after the manner of a gyroscope within the torpedo and is built up on the principle that a body revolving on a free axis tends to preserve its plane of rotation…"