Torpedo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The modern torpedo (historically called an automotive, automobile, locomotive, or fish torpedo) is a self-propelled explosive projectile weapon, launched above or below the water surface, propelled ...
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Robert Whitehead, the inventor of the torpedo. They had five children:
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Bangalore torpedo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Bangalore torpedo is an explosive charge placed on the end of a long, extendible tube. It is used by combat engineers to clear obstacles that would otherwise require them to approach directly, pos...
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Much like the invention of the helicopter, the earliest torpedoes are thought to have existed as concepts many centuries before being developed as working devices. The earliest known description of what might be called a torpedo is found in...
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Robert Fulton invented the word torpedo to describe his underwater explosive device and successfully destroyed a ship in 1805. In the 1840s Samuel Colt began experimenting with underwater mines fired by electric current and in 1842, he blew up an old schooner in the Potomac River from a shore station five miles away.
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www.nps.gov/fowa/torpedo.htm
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As a result the automobile or "fish" weapon was invented and I shall now begin the story of the weapon known universally as the Torpedo. ... In 1895 came the first significant improvement to the torpedo since its invention. Whitehead introduced the gyroscope for azimuth control using the type invented by an Austrian,
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www.btinternet.com/~philipr/torps.htm
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1510 - Wheelock firearm invented; 1516 - Indigo dye from N. World brought to Europe ... 1776 - First submarine used in warfare, invented by Amer. David Bushnell. With a one-man crew, it was deployed unsuccessfully against the British in NY Harbor. ... 1777 - The torpedo was invented by David Bushnell.
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www.noquartergiven.net/timeline.htm
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His influence on German naval policy began with his study of the recently invented torpedo and his consequent appointment (1871) as chief of the torpedo division of the navy ministry. Appointed secretary of state for naval affairs in 1897, he began to build a powerful battle fleet.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Robert Whitehead (British engineer), British engineer who invented the modern torpedo. ... British engineer who invented the modern torpedo.
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