id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 44990 Sleeman, Charles William Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare Containing a Complete and Concise Account of the Rise and Progress of Submarine Warfare .txt text/plain 126703 7715 72 in the form and construction of steam torpedo boats, their engines, For large ground mines, the best form of torpedo case seems to be that electrical submarine mines, in the place of the platinum wire fuze, submarine mines, the wires along which the electric current flows have, _Special Cables._--In firing electrical submarine mines by means of _Use of Circuit Closers._--Electrical submarine mines may by means of closing of the electric circuit in connection with submarine mines, is for use by placing torpedo boats in the said tubes, and may be kept torpedo boat from an ironclad or other large ship is shown at Fig. 130. electric cables of the said torpedo boats, each cable being connected When it is desired to sink the torpedo boat an electric current is sent of the torpedo boat are effected are connected to the cable and such vessels that a torpedo boat attack will generally be used and ./cache/44990.txt ./txt/44990.txt