[PDF] The Encyclopaedia Britannica Submarine Mines Tom Tom eBook

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Excerpt from The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 26: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information; Submarine Mines to Tom-Tom Although the scientific development of submarine mining is the work of the last fifty years, attempts to use drifting charges against ships and bridges are recorded as early as the roth century. Mines were used by the Americans in 1777, and in 1780 Robert Fulton produced an explosive machine which he called a torpedo, and which was experimented with, not very successfully, up to 1815. In 1854 the Russians used mechanical mines in the Baltic, but without any marked success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.