Download or read book Torpedoes for National Defence written by William Henry Jaques and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Torpedoes for National Defence written by William Henry Jaques and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Use of the Torpedo in the Defence of Ports and Harbors written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Use of Torpedoes in Naval Operations and for the Defence of Ports and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Torpedoes for National Defence A Practical and Concise Review of These Weapons Etc written by William H. JAQUES and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Torpedo written by Roger Branfill-Cook and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedic study of the ship-killer par excellence—from its development to post-World War II usage. “A well-written book, lavishly illustrated.” —International Journal of Maritime History The torpedo was the greatest single game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time it allowed a small, cheap torpedo-firing vessel—and by extension a small, minor navy—to threaten the largest and most powerful warships afloat.The traditional concept of seapower, based on huge fleets of expensive capital ships, required radical rethinking because of this important naval weapon. This book is a broad-ranging international history of the weapon, tracing not only its origins and technical progress down to the present day, but also its massive impact on all subsequent naval wars. Torpedo contains much new technical information that has come to light over the past thirty years and covers all of the improved capabilities of the weapon. Heavily illustrated with photos and technical drawings this is a book no enthusiast or historian can afford to miss. “The torpedo—one of the most fearsome weapons ever created by man—is well worth its own history.” —Forum Navale

Download or read book Torpedo War and Submarine Explosions written by Robert Fulton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Torpedo War, and Submarine Explosions" by Robert Fulton Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat. This book is, in part, a letter that shares Fulton's thoughts on the development of sea vessels. The book also includes some of the very first torpedo designs, which forever changed the way war is waged.

Download or read book Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare written by Charles William Sleeman and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hellions of the Deep written by Robert Gannon and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimately, World War II was the first war won by technology, but within only a few weeks after the war began, the U.S. Navy realized its torpedo program was a dismal failure. Submarine skippers reported that most of their torpedoes were either missing the targets or failing to explode if they did hit. The United States had to work fast if it expected to compete with the Japanese Long Lance, the biggest and fastest torpedo in the world, and Germany's electric and sonar models. Hellions of the Deep tells the dramatic story of how Navy planners threw aside the careful procedures of peacetime science and initiated "radical research" gathering together the nation's best scientists and engineers in huge research centers and giving them freedom of experimentation to create sophisticated weaponry with a single goal--winning the war. The largest center for torpedo work was a requisitioned gymnasium at Harvard University, where the most famous names in science worked with the best graduate students from all around the country at the business of war. They had to produce tangible weapons, to consider production and supply tactics, to take orders from the military, and, in many cases, also to teach the military how to use the weapons they developed. World War II grew into a chess match played by scientists and physicists, and it became the only war in history to be won by weapons invented during the conflict. For this book, Robert Gannon conducted numerous interviews over a twenty-year period with scientists, engineers, physicists, submarine skippers, and Navy bureaucrats, all involved in the development of the advanced weapons technology that won the war. While the search for new weapons was deadly serious, stretching imagination and resourcefulness to the limit each day, the need was obvious: American ships were being blown up daily just outside the Boston harbor. These oral histories reveal that, in retrospect, surprising even to those who went through it, the search for the "hellions of the deep" was, for many, the most exciting period of their lives.

Download or read book Submarine Mines and Torpedoes written by John Townsend Bucknill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Submarine Mines and Torpedoes: As Applied to Harbour Defence The following pages have, for the most part, already appeared in Engineering, in a series Of articles on submarine mining, and several requests having been received to republish same in book form, it has been determined to, do so. An examination of the Table of Contents enables a reader to separate theory from practice. The general sequence of the chapters has been arranged as far as possible in the order in which a scientific subject should be investigated, viz.: (1) Theory (2) Experiment; (3) Practical Application. In compiling these pages, great care has been taken to guard all Government secrets - those arrangements only being described which have already been published, either in the specifications obtainable at the Patent Office, or in the public press, or in books sold to the public in this and other countries. I shall feel compensated for a long year of labour if the general ideas propounded receive attention, and should they be accepted, I shall feel that it is more due to the exceptional advantage of having worked for several years in daily contact with the English Vauban than to any perspicuity of my own. The broad principles of scattering submarine mines as much as possible should be identified with him (sir Wm. F. Drummond J ervois), and if he agree in the main with the contents of the following pages I shall consider their accuracy proven. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Submarine Mines and Torpedoes written by John Townsend Bucknill and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Download or read book SUBMARINE MINES TORPEDOES AS written by J. Townsend Bucknill and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Notes on Torpedoes Offensive and Defensive Classic Reprint written by Richard Hugh Stotherd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Notes on Torpedoes, Offensive and Defensive Under the comprehensive head of submarine mines is included a vast field for research, in which there is ample space for the development of inventive genius, in connection with the defense of fortified harbors, estuaries of rivers, and the coast generally, a most important subject in a military point of view, and which, affecting as it does the attack of such places from the sea, renders it a consideration of the utmost gravity. The introduction of machines of this nature in war cannot be overlooked with impunity by a great maritime power like Great Britain, possessing, as she does, numerous colonies and an immense commercial navy which, in addition to her own coasts, must be defended in the event of war; and as the employment of submarine mines seems to present such a considerable increase in defensive power, there is every reason to suppose that a judicious use of them would, on an emergency, prove of infinitely greater value to us than to a nation possessing less of the maritime element in its composition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Submarine Mines And Torpedoes As Applied to Harbour Defence 1889 written by John Townsend Bucknill (Late Major R. E. and published by . This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A specialist how to book detailing the methods used to protect vital ports and harbours up to the late 1880s by means of the fast-evolving weapons of submarines, mines and torpedoes. The author, a former Royal Engineers officer, goes into great technical detail on the specifics of mine casings, the quantities of explosives used, electrical mines, and even the personnel best employed to operate the weaponry. The text is well-illustrated by diagrams, plans and maps as well as tables of explosive formulae etc. A must have book for all who are interested in the early development of mine and submarine warfare.

Download or read book Submarine Warfare Offensive and Defensive Including a Discussion of the Offensive Torpedo System Its Effects Upon Iron Clad Ship Systems and Influ written by John Sanford Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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