{"product_id":"2940148121077","title":"Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare","description":"decoration\u003cbr\u003eIn the following pages the Author has endeavoured to supply a want, viz. a comprehensive work on Torpedo Warfare, brought down to the latest date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe information has been obtained while practically engaged in torpedo work at home and abroad, and from the study of the principal books which have already appeared on the subject, and to the authors of which he would now beg to express his acknowledgments, viz.: \"Submarine Warfare,\" by Lieut.-Commander Barnes, U.S.N.; \"Notes on Torpedoes,\" by Major Stotherd, R.E.; \"Art of War in Europe,\" by General Delafield, U.S.A.; \"Life of Fulton,\" by C. D. Colden; \"Torpedo War,\" by R. Fulton; \"Armsmear,\" by H. Barnard; \"Treatise on Coast Defence,\" by Colonel Von Scheliha; Professional Papers of the Royal Engineers; \"The Engineering\"; \"The Engineer\"; \"Scientific American\"; \"Iron\"; \u0026amp;c., \u0026amp;c.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Author is also desirous of thanking the following gentlemen, to whom he is indebted for much of the valuable information contained herein:—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMessrs. Siemens Brothers, Messrs. Thornycroft and Co., Messrs. Yarrow and Co., Captain C. A. McEvoy, 18 Adam Street, W.C., Mr. L. Lay, Messrs. J. Vavaseur and Co.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  PAGE\u003cbr\u003ePreface iii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003eThe early History of the Torpedo—Remarks on the existing State of Torpedo Warfare 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003eDefensive Torpedo Warfare—Mechanical Submarine Mines—Mechanical Fuzes—Mooring Mechanical Mines 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.\u003cbr\u003eDefensive Torpedo Warfare (continued)—Electrical Submarine Mines—Electrical Fuzes—Insulated Electric Cables—Electric Cable Joints—Junction Boxes—Mooring Electrical Submarine Mines 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV.\u003cbr\u003eDefensive Torpedo Warfare (continued)—Circuit Closers—Firing by Observation—Voltaic Batteries—Electrical Machines—Firing Keys and Shutter Apparatus—Testing Submarine Mines—Clearing a Passage through Torpedo Defences 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V.\u003cbr\u003eOffensive Torpedo Warfare—Drifting Torpedoes—Towing Torpedoes—Locomotive Torpedoes—Spar Torpedoes—General Remarks on Offensive Torpedoes 115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI.\u003cbr\u003e[vi]Torpedo Vessels and Boats—The Uhlan—The Alarm—The Destroyer—Thornycroft's Torpedo Boats—Yarrow's Torpedo Boats—Schibau's Torpedo Boats—Herreshoff's Torpedo Boats—Torpedo Boat Attacks—Submarine Boats 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII.\u003cbr\u003eTorpedo 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII.\u003cbr\u003eOn Explosives—Definitions—Experiments—Gunpowder—Picric Powder—Nitro-Glycerine—Dynamite—Gun-cotton—Fulminate of Mercury—Dualin—Lithofracteur—Horsley's Powder—Torpedo Explosive Agents—Torpedo Explosions 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX.\u003cbr\u003eTorpedo Experiments—Chatham, England, 1865—Austria—Carlscrona, Sweden, 1868—Kiel, Prussia—England, 1874—Copenhagen, Denmark, 1874—Carlscrona, Sweden, 1874-75—Portsmouth, England, 1874-75—Pola, Austria, 1875—Portsmouth, England, 1876—Experiments with Countermines—The Medway, England, 1870—Stokes Bay, England, 1873—Carlscrona, Sweden, 1874 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER X.\u003cbr\u003eThe Electric Light—The Nordenfelt and Hotchkiss Torpedo Guns—Diving 239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XI.\u003cbr\u003eElectricity 265\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX.\u003cbr\u003eMcEvoy's Single Main Systems 283\u003cbr\u003eSiemens' Universal Galvanometer Tables 287\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis of the Principal Events that have occurred in connection with the History of the Torpedo 290\u003cbr\u003eIndex 297\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bronson Tweed Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158855434480,"sku":"2940148121077","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148121077_p0.jpg?v=1763697099","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148121077","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}