decoration | PAGE | | Preface | iii |
CHAPTER I. | | The early History of the Torpedo—Remarks on the existing State of Torpedo Warfare | 1 |
CHAPTER II. | | Defensive Torpedo Warfare—Mechanical Submarine Mines—Mechanical Fuzes—Mooring Mechanical Mines | 13 |
CHAPTER III. | | Defensive Torpedo Warfare (continued)—Electrical Submarine Mines—Electrical Fuzes—Insulated Electric Cables—Electric Cable Joints—Junction Boxes—Mooring Electrical Submarine Mines | 27 |
CHAPTER IV. | | Defensive 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 |
CHAPTER V. | | Offensive Torpedo Warfare—Drifting Torpedoes—Towing Torpedoes—Locomotive Torpedoes—Spar Torpedoes—General Remarks on Offensive Torpedoes | 115 |
CHAPTER 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 |
CHAPTER VII. | | Torpedo 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 |
CHAPTER VIII. | | On 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 |
CHAPTER IX. | | Torpedo 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 |
CHAPTER X. | | The Electric Light—The Nordenfelt and Hotchkiss Torpedo Guns—Diving | 239 |
CHAPTER XI. | | Electricity | 265 |
APPENDIX. | | McEvoy's Single Main Systems | 283 | | Siemens' Universal Galvanometer Tables | 287 | | Synopsis of the Principal Events that have occurred in connection with the History of the Torpedo | 290 | | Index | 297 |
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