Published Resources Details Letters Patent

Author
Leavitt, F. M.
Title
Steering apparatus for automobile torpedoes
Imprint
United States Patent Office, 2551
Description

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 839,161. Application filed January 20 1906.

Accession No.1419

Abstract

"This invention relates to gyroscopic steering mechanisms for automobile torpedoes. The object of the present invention is to decrease the tactical diameter of the torpedo during the time that it is steering its initial circular course and to restore the normal tactical diameter upon the termination of this initial course and the beginning of the ultimate direct course of the torpedo toward the target…"

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