Published Resources Details Journal Article
- Title
- Torpedo War
- In
- Engineering
- Imprint
- vol. 9, 14 January 1870, pp. 25-26
- Description
Accession No.778
- Abstract
A review of the progress made in torpedo warfare in the 100 years between 1770 and 1870, covering the work of David Bushnell (1742-1824), Robert Fulton (1765-1815) and Samuel Colt (1814-1862), the American Civil War, and "…Austrian engineers…devoting themselves to the perfection of torpedoes." [Robert Whitehead and Giovanni Luppis].