Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare, by C. W. Sleeman, Esq

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Author

Sleeman, Charles William

Title

Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare Containing a Complete and Concise Account of the Rise and Progress of Submarine Warfare

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Produced by Chris Curnow, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

V: Naval science

Subject

Torpedoes

Category

Text

eBook-No.

44990

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44990

Release Date

February 24, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TORPEDOES AND TORPEDO WARFARE:
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.LIST OF PLATES.
5. 5.CHAPTER I. THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE TORPEDO.—REMARKS ON THE EXISTING STATE OF TORPEDO WARFARE. — FOOTNOTES:
6. 6.CHAPTER II. DEFENSIVE TORPEDO WARFARE.—MECHANICAL MINES.—MECHANICAL FUZES.—MOORING MECHANICAL MINES. — FOOTNOTE:
7. 7.CHAPTER III. DEFENSIVE TORPEDO WARFARE— continued .
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. DEFENSIVE TORPEDO WARFARE— continued . — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.CHAPTER V. OFFENSIVE TORPEDO WARFARE.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. TORPEDO VESSELS, BOATS, AND SUBMARINE BOATS. — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. TORPEDO OPERATIONS. — Crimean War (1854-56). — Austro-Italian War (1859). — American Civil War (1861-65). — Paraguayan War (1864-68). — Austrian War (1866). — Franco-German War (1870-71). — Russo-Turkish War (1877-78). — 1st Affair. — 2nd Affair. — 3rd Affair. — 4th Affair. — 5th Affair. — 6th Affair. — 7th Affair. — 8th Affair. — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. ON EXPLOSIVES. — A.— Explosive Mixtures. — B.— Explosive Compounds.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. TORPEDO EXPERIMENTS. — 1st Experiment. — 2nd Experiment. — 3rd Experiment. — 4th Experiment. — 5th Experiment. — 1st Experiment. — 2nd Experiment. — 3rd Experiment. — 4th Experiment. — 5th Experiment. — 6th Experiment. — 7th Experiment. — 8th Experiment. — 9th Experiment. — 10th Experiment. — 11th Experiment. — 1st Experiment. — 2nd Experiment. — 3rd Experiment. — 4th Experiment. — 5th Experiment. — 6th Experiment. — 7th Experiment. — 1st Experiment. — 2nd Experiment. — Experiment. — 1st Experiment. — 2nd Experiment. — 3rd Experiment. — 4th Experiment. — 1st Experiment. — 2nd Experiment. — 3rd Experiment. — 1st Experiment. — 2nd Experiment. — 1st Experiment. — 2nd Experiment. — 3rd Experiment. — 4th Experiment.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. THE ELECTRIC LIGHT—TORPEDO GUNS—DIVING. — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. ELECTRICITY. — FOOTNOTE:
16. 16.APPENDIX. — FOOTNOTE:
17. 17.ERRATA.
18. 18.INDEX.
19. 19.PAMPHLETS.
20. 20.NAVAL PROFESSIONAL BOOKS. SOLD BY MESSRS. GRIFFIN & CO.

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