SWEDISH AIR TORPEDO
An air torpedo of a construction heretofore unknown has been patented by a Swedish major. The inventor has just received a subsidy from the German Government for making experiments with the new torpedo. The motion of this peculiar projectile through the air, according to the patent specifications, is caused exclusively by the force which is developed in the torpedo little by little from the ignition »f gas generated from any slow-burning explosive. The pressure of the gas gradually becoming stronger, propels the torpedo through an arrangement by which the gas can escape at the bottom. Once in motion, the torpedo therefore increases its speed in the same degree as the gas pressure is increased. The charge may consist of any explosive, provided the same is ignited by shocks and blows. The initial velocity need be but slight, as the torpedo is impelled by its own force. Therefore, the discharge from the torpedo gun, which, constructed for the purpose, occasions no report or recoil and but little pressure, and consequently is not in the least dangerous to those handling the gun. At the trials made so far the torpedoes have traversed a distance of 16,000ft.—'Invention.'
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Dunstan Times, Issue 2087, 30 July 1901, Page 3
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197SWEDISH AIR TORPEDO Dunstan Times, Issue 2087, 30 July 1901, Page 3
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