Excerpt from Report Upon Experiments and Investigations to Develop a System of Submarine Mines for Defending the Harbors of the United Stets The simplest manner of arriving at practical conclusions would, doubtless, have been to make actual trials upon a modern ship of war; or upon a hull correctly representing it not only in strength but also in mass, upon which the destructive effect of a sudden shock must largely 'depend. Such trials would have far exceeded the funds available; and it therefore became necessary to ...
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Excerpt from Report Upon Experiments and Investigations to Develop a System of Submarine Mines for Defending the Harbors of the United Stets The simplest manner of arriving at practical conclusions would, doubtless, have been to make actual trials upon a modern ship of war; or upon a hull correctly representing it not only in strength but also in mass, upon which the destructive effect of a sudden shock must largely 'depend. Such trials would have far exceeded the funds available; and it therefore became necessary to devise some other method. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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1881, Washington: GPO
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Washington: GPO
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1881
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English
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17763556754
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