Published Resources Details Letters Patent

Author
McCaughey, D. W.
Title
Dirigible torpedo
Imprint
United States Patent Office, 1690
Description

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,490. Application filed March 20 1902.

Accession No.1400

Abstract

"The principal object of the invention is to provide a simple, economical and efficient electrically-controlled torpedo. A further object of the invention is to provide a torpedo with electrically actuated mechanisms connected with the shore-line with but a single insulated wire and arranged and constructed in such a manner as to be operated, directed, and controlled from the shore by means of the electric current passing through said wire."