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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. At the end of this wharf is a small receiver, to which a gauge is attached, and from which two flexible tubes are led, one to work the ejector and the other to fill the air chamber of the torpedo; the receiver is connected by a pipe with a large air-compressing pump in a machine shop situ ated at the foot of the wharf, a launching tube somewhat similar to those used on board ship is suspended from the wharf by means of tackles. The inventor has also several boats similar to those shown in Plate III, for manipulating the torpedoes by hand. 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.

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