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Vintage diagram of a Torpedo 1930s #235368559
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Torpedo - Longitudinal section of a Whitehead automobile torpedo. The Whitehead torpedo was the first self-propelled or `locomotive` torpedo ever developed, rough design conceived by Giovanni Luppis of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in Fiume. It was driven by a three-cylinder compressed-air engine invented, designed, and made by Peter Brotherhood. This early torpedo proved itself in combat during the Russo-Turkish War when, on January 16, 1878, the Ottoman ship Intibah was sunk by Russian torpedo boats carrying Whiteheads, though this story has been disputed in one book.
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