Torpedo
A torpedo at the time of early aero meant an underwater explosive weapon, normally a self-propelled one. The term may have had a broader meaning then than it does now, and include those that were not self-propelled or were stationary like what we now call underwater mines.[1]
Torpedo work was generally outside the margins of aero development so we can include or exclude at will for now.
But Kate Epstein, author of Torpedo[2], has cultivated extraordinary expertise into US and British militaries and patent practices of the period 1890-1920, and many of the characters were familiar with projectiles both in water and in the air.
Torpedoes are projectiles, like air missiles or bullets. The concept of an aerial torpedo is out there also, apparently overlapping with the term missile.
References
This wiki has 25 patents in category "Torpedo". Other techtypes related to Torpedo: CPC F42, CPC F42B, CPC F42B15/22, CPC F42B19/00, USPC 114/18
Patents in category Torpedo
- Patent US-1882-319633 (English title: Torpedo-boat propelled and steered by electricity, Inventors: Winfield Scott Sims, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1883-2614, Filing date: 1882-05-29)
- Patent US-1890-450875 (English title: Electrically propelled and steered torpedo, Inventors: Winfield S. Sims, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1885-319633, Filing date: 1890-12-22)
- Patent US-1898-641787 (English title: Automobile torpedo, Inventors: Hudson Maxim, Filing date: 1898-02-12)
- Patent US-1901-748143 (English title: Wireless telegraphy and transmission of power, Inventors: James T. Armstrong • Axel Orling, Filing date: 1901-03-11)
- Patent GB-1903-15505 (English title: Improvements in or relating to the Regulation of Fluid Pressure Turbines Applicable to Torpedoes and other Mobile Apparatus, Inventors: Johann Stumpf, Filing date: 1903-07-13)
- Patent US-1904-778401 (English title: Automatic torpedo adjuster and exploder, Inventors: Israel V. Burris, Filing date: 1904-06-23)
- Patent CA-1904-89422 (English title: Automatic torpedo adjuster and exploder, Inventors: Israel V. Burris • Rupert G. Bryant, Filing date: 1904-08-24)
- Patent GB-1905-21176 (Inventors: Sydney Undercliffe Hardcastle, Filing date: 1905-10-18)
- Patent GB-1906-7390 (English title: Improved Apparatus for Increasing the Working Efficiency of Compressed Air Motors, Inventors: Johann Gesztesy • Julius von Petravic, Filing date: 1906-03-27)
- Patent GB-1906-16929 (Inventors: Sydney Undercliffe Hardcastle, Filing date: July 1906)
- Patent US-1906-858266 (English title: Automobile torpedo, Inventors: Gregory C. Davison, Filing date: 1906-10-19)
- Patent US-1907-860599 (English title: Automatic torpedo signal apparatus, Inventors: Frank T. Forbes • Charles P. Hogan, Filing date: 1907-03-08)
- Patent US-1908-964574 (English title: Means for increasing the energy of stored compressed air, Inventors: William Horace Sodeau, Filing date: 1908-01-27, Applicant firm: Armstrong Whitworth)
- Patent GB-1908-19825 (English title: Apparatus for guiding torpedos from a distance, Inventors: Eugen Klupathy • Christian Berger, Filing date: 1908-09-21)
- Patent US-1909-941111 (English title: Torpedo, Inventors: Johann Tasto)
- Patent US-1909-1036080 (English title: Apparatus for generating motive fluid for automobile torpedoes, Inventors: Gregory Caldwell Davison, Filing date: 1909-03-29, Applicant firm: Electric Boat Corp)
- Patent US-1910-1008871 (English title: Means for increasing energy of stored compressed air or other gas capable of supporting combustion, Inventors: William Horace Sodeau, Filing date: 1910-07-18, Applicant firm: Sir WG Armstrong Whitworth and Co Ltd)
- Patent AT-1913-64890 (English title: Combined air- and water-torpedo, Inventors: Karl Warchalowski, Filing date: 1913-02-13)
- Patent DE-1913-307280 (English title: Combined air- and water-torpedo, Inventors: Karl Warchalowski, Supplementary to patent: Patent AT-1913-64890, Filing date: 1913-06-08)
- Patent US-1915-1166367 (English title: Hydroaeroplane, Inventors: William S. Hart, Filing date: 1915-04-06)
- Patent US-1915-1184699 (English title: Submarine projectile, Inventors: Frank E. Kenney, Filing date: 1915-08-31)
- Patent US-1917-1223212 (English title: Aeromarine torpedo, Inventors: Joseph Allison Steinmetz, Filing date: 1916-03-07)
- Patent FR-1916-493651 (English title: Magnetic stabilizer for airplanes, submarines, torpedoes and other applications, Inventors: Albéric de la Celle, Filing date: 1916-11-11)
- Patent FR-1917-493651.22270 (English title: Magnetic stabilizer for airplanes, submarines, torpedoes and other applications, Inventors: Albéric de la Celle, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1916-493651, Filing date: 1917-01-11)
- Patent FR-1921-538133 (English title: Torpedo propulsion or the like improvements, Inventors: Sydney Undercliffe Hardcastle, Filing date: 1921-07-11)
Publications referring to Torpedo
- Pompeien-Piraud, 1886, Causerie sur la navigation aérienne. Torpilleur aérien (Simple title: Talk on air navigation. Air torpedo)
- Publication 95, 1903, Aerial torpedo (Simple title: Aerial torpedo, Journal: Aer. World)
- Publication 9477, 1906, Palloni-piloti torpedini (Simple title: Torpedo pilot balloons, Journal: Boll. Soc. Aer. Ital.)
- Publication B2p1333e14, 1914, Torpedo attack from the air (Simple title: Torpedo attack from the air, Journal: Scient. Amer.)
- Epstein, 2014, Torpedo (Simple title: Torpedo)
Enclosing categories | Simple tech terms, Military, Projectile |
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Subcategories | Bliss-Leavitt torpedo, Whitehead torpedo |
Keywords | Military, Explosive |
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