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20, 1874 paperback – february 28, 2010 by francis morgan barber (author) see all formats and editions hide other formats and editions.
** the initiative behind the self-propelled torpedo was provided by an austrian frigate captain giovanni luppi. After some unsuccesful attempts to propel a charge laden boat with a springdriven clockwork. In 1864 he turned to robert whitehead (1823-1905), then technical manager in an italian factory to design an improved version.
Robert whitehead, british engineer who invented the modern torpedo. In 1856, after serving an apprenticeship in manchester and working in marseille, milan,.
Barber u knjizi „lecture on the whitehead torpedo“ 1875. Godine jedan ribar je pronašao whiteheadov torpedo, novi model mk 1 i donio ga u austrijsku mornaričku bazu u puli.
Kako amerikanci još nisu kupili niti torpedo niti prava na njegovu proizvodnju kada je izdata knjiga “lecture on the whitehead torpedo” (whitehead im je to bezuspješno nudio 1869. ), sam autor knjige priznaje da su opis i crteži torpeda u knjizi rezultat svjedočenja oficira koji su imali prilike vidjeti torpedo, nekih.
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Excerpt from lecture on the whitehead torpedo for experimental purposes the inventor has at fiume a wharf running out into the water to a depth of 14 feet.
The subject of the conference is the history and heritage of the torpedo in recognition of the 150th anniversary of the invention of the luppis-whitehead torpedo, first tested at rijeka in december 1866. Conference topics are: torpedo technology heritage as part of world industrial heritage and naval/marine heritage.
Sir william ramsay nobel lecture nobel lecture, december 12, 1904. The discoveries which have gained for me the supreme honour of the nobel prize for chemistry appear to me to have been the result of causes only partially within my control; and as it is one of the rules of the academy, of which i have to thank you for admitting me to the membership, to require.
Rights to the whitehead torpedo and that the royal navy negotiated their first agreement with robert whitehead in 1871. 6the association of electrical equipment with torpedoes was common, but the logic is not easy to follow.
Goldsmiths' departments of computing and psychology organise regular lectures by guest speakers throughout the academic year encompassing diverse.
To members, and said that the lieutenant was the commonwealth torpedo expert, and that in listening to his lecture on torpedoes, and torpedo warfare from its earliest inception they would learn the views of one thoroughly sound in the theory and prac-.
Pdf a presentation of my take on the history of the torpedo from robert whitehead to somewhere near today.
How then do the gun and whitehead torpedo stand to-day as part of the armament of a ship of the line the object in war is to disarm the enemy.
After locating it, the rss valiant, which is the lead ship for the exercise, fired a whitehead torpedo from its three-barreled b515 launcher at the submarine.
In-deed, one of its striking peculiarities is that since the unwinding of its tight coils proceeds most rapidly toward the end, the speed of the torpedo will ap-parently be greatest toward the end of its course, or at the time most neces-jsar-v.
During world war ii, torpedoes were manufactured at the royal naval torpedo factory at greenock and alexandria, near dumbarton; the vickers-armstrong (formerly whitehead) works at weymouth. Many usa torpedoes were used, especially those for aircraft and lend-lease destroyers.
Navy bureau of ordnance publication on the subject of the mobile torpedo invented by whitehead.
Based largely on original research, this sophisticated book is more than a catalogue of the weapons, offering insight into some of the most important technical and operational factors influencing.
May 15, 2015 robert whitehead (right) with a rather battered test torpedo, fiume, c1875.
The whitehead torpedo was developed from a device in the american civil war that was really a mine into a device that was launched from a special boat (a torpedo boat). It traveled under the surface for long ranges to deliver a nitroglycerine charge weighing several hundred pounds against the side of an enemy ship.
Important navies had taken licences to use the whitehead torpedo.
By 1900, navies had added submarines, torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers to their fleets and mines and booby traps were excluded from the definition. Whitehead, who had moved to croatia, worked with the austrians and produced the first modern torpedo, powered by compressed air with a range of 1,000 metres.
The barber torpedo can best be described as an improved version of the harvey towed torpedo in which the long lever-arms used to fire the explosive charge in the body of the torpedo were replaced by six impact fuses projecting at various angles from the surface of the powder chamber.
In only one night attack out of the six did the torpedo fail to sink a vessel and, as might be expected, this was the first boat attack ever made with the whitehead torpedo. In the six night attacks, twenty-seven boats were employed, though only 15 discharged their torpedoes and were under fire.
The ship’s company lived on the lower deck with the warrant officers’ mess at the after part on the orlop deck. Below this (the cockpit of an old line of battle ship) there was on one side a row of different patterns of above-water discharge apparatus for the ‘whitehead’ torpedo used for teaching classes.
The modern torpedo was developed by robert whitehead, a british engineer. In 1864 the austrian navy asked him to work out an idea for an explosive-carrying,.
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Rt of had come to him, the first whitehead torpedo had been designed and made.
“early american development of the whitehead torpedo: technology, american foreign relations to 1914 (upper-division undergraduate lecture course).
Apr 9, 2020 the guns, torpedo tubes, and the blucher are still in their respective places as on that fateful morning 75 years ago today.
The idea and purpose of this talk is to go back into the years and show the evolution of the the first whitehead torpedoes used by our navy during the nineties.
The torpedo was a new weapon developed in the nineteenth century that had a terrible impact in the two world wars.
5 the century of progress 1869–1969, a history of torpedo system development, newport, 1969.
The power and docility of the whitehead torpedo, which, as lord charles beresford observed, can do everything but speak, was not shown yesterday, but an engine equally destructive for attack -viz.
The whitehead torpedo did not create an immediate sensation in naval circles. But whitehead soon increased its size, power, range, and the lethality of the warhead. An austrian, ludwig obry, adapted the gyroscope to the torpedo, giving it directional control. With each improvement, naval authorities paid greater interest.
The whitehead torpedo started about 30 years ago with a speed of six or seven knots and with fairly reliable runs for 200 yards. Its speed, range, and accuracy have made successive strides, adding four or five knots of speed and several hundred yards to the range with each new type developed.
A torpedo cannot do that, so it uses a fuel that either does not need an oxidizer, or it carries the oxidizer inside the torpedo. Otto fuel (see the links below) has its own oxidizer mixed with the fuel. Hydrogen peroxide (as discussed on this page) does not need an oxidizer.
He was the first to produce an effective, sub-surface, self-propelled torpedo. It much improved on the spar torpedo used during the american civil war, which used a charge triggered by a long pole and floated to its target on a small boat.
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Apr 18, 2020 this torpedo was perfected in 1866 by robert whitehead. In one speech when visiting portsmouth, churchill used the phrase 'we have only.
Robert whitehead showed a torpedo driven by pneumatic engine at fiume for austrian navy in 1869 great interest from england whitehead torpedos built for the admiralty depth control the secret -proportional feedback from depth and attitude in the us the howell torpedo driven by heavy flywheel (10000 rpm).
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