Author: GRAY, EDWYN.
Title: Nineteenth-Century Torpedoes and Their Inventors.
Description: First Printing; 8vo; pp. x, 248, (iii); photograph and sketch illustrations; appendices, notes, bibliography, index; dustjacket; a fine copy. Annapolis, Maryland, Naval Institute Press., (c 2004). The author traces the history of the torpedo, placing its evolution in the context of a defining century of weapons development when torpedoes progressed from harpoon projectiles to rocket-powered weapons..
Keywords: gmil maritime engineers inventors history torpedo torpedoes weapon invention naval warfare missile 19th century
Title: Nineteenth-Century Torpedoes and Their Inventors.
Description: First Printing; 8vo; pp. x, 248, (iii); photograph and sketch illustrations; appendices, notes, bibliography, index; dustjacket; a fine copy. Annapolis, Maryland, Naval Institute Press., (c 2004). The author traces the history of the torpedo, placing its evolution in the context of a defining century of weapons development when torpedoes progressed from harpoon projectiles to rocket-powered weapons..
Keywords: gmil maritime engineers inventors history torpedo torpedoes weapon invention naval warfare missile 19th century
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- Book number: 103934
- Book number: 103934