Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)
Torpedo Operations--The Crimean War (1854-56)--The Austro-Italian War (1859)--The American Civil War (1861-65)--The Paraguayan War (1864-68)--The Austrian War (1866)--The Franco-German War (1870-71)--The Russo-Turkish War (1877-78) 187
_CLOSING the Electric Circuit._--In connection with the system of coast defence by means of electrical submarine mines, there are two distinct methods of effecting the closing o...
20. CHAPTER XI."That every substance and every atom of the world is pervaded by a peculiar, subtle, imponderable fluid which is termed _Electricity_, but which is not known to exist, or remain...
14. CHAPTER V.THE term "Torpedo" is applicable more particularly to offensive submarine mines than to those employed for the purposes of defence, and therefore by _torpedoes_ will be understo...
12. CHAPTER III._Submarine Mines during the Crimean and American Wars._--It was during the Crimean war (1854-6) that this description of defensive torpedoes was for the first time employed on a...
15. CHAPTER VI._EMPLOYMENT of Torpedo Ships._--Torpedo ships, that is to say, sea-going vessels, very fast, handy and impregnable, specially designed to carry and operate offensive submarine w...
19. CHAPTER X.ELECTRIC lights combined with fast steam launches as guard boats and specially constructed torpedo guns, such as the Nordenfelt and Hotchkiss machine guns, are at the present ti...
18. CHAPTER IX.THE following are some of the more important torpedo experiments that have been carried out in England and Europe, to investigate the subject of submarine explosions as applied...
16. CHAPTER VII.A REVIEW, however brief, of the numerous torpedo operations that have of late years been carried out in actual war, must prove not only of great interest, but of material aid to...
11. CHAPTER II._Submarine Mines.--Defence in Future Wars._--The very conspicuous part played by submarine mines, in the many wars that have taken place since the introduction of the torpedo as...
17. CHAPTER VIII.EXPLOSION may be defined as the sudden or extremely rapid conversion of a solid or liquid body of small bulk into gas or vapour, occupying very many times the volume of the orig...
10. CHAPTER I.THE earliest record we have of the employment of an infernal machine at all resembling the torpedo of the present day, was in 1585 at the siege of Antwerp. Here by means of cert...
21. PART II.--Investigations and Proofs of Rules. 7s. 6d.Obvious punctuation errors have been repaired. Varied hyphenation was retained. The errors noted in the book's errata section have been repaired in the text except for the final...
9. CHAPTER XI.DESTRUCTION OF TURKISH GUNBOAT "SUNA" (_Frontispiece_). I. FULTON'S TORPEDOES. II. FRAME TORPEDOES, BUOYANT MECHANICAL MINES. III. SINGER'S AND MCEVOY'S MECHANICAL MINES. IV. EX...
6. CHAPTER VII.Torpedo Operations--The Crimean War (1854-56)--The Austro-Italian War (1859)--The American Civil War (1861-65)--The Paraguayan War (1864-68)--The Austrian War (1866)--The Franco...
8. CHAPTER IX.3. CHAPTER IV.5. CHAPTER VI.2. CHAPTER III.1. CHAPTER I.4. CHAPTER V.7. CHAPTER VIII.