| 单词 | whitehead torpedo |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWhitehead torpedo More fully Whitehead torpedo. A kind of self-propelled torpedo, shaped somewhat like a fish, with vertical and lateral fins, and powered by compressed air. Also called fish-torpedo.Whitehead's torpedo was the first to be self-propelled and to be launched from a ship. Later innovations were a self-regulating device that kept it at a predetermined depth, and gyroscopic stabilization to maintain its direction. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > torpedo torpedo1776 Whitehead1872 fish-torpedo1878 mouldy1916 fish1925 torp1929 pickle1931 kipper1953 1871 Rep. Fabrication of Iron for Defensive Purposes (U.S. Army: Corps Engineers) 83 While in Trieste our attention was called to the Luppis-Whitehead torpedo. This is said to be an invention of Luppis, but perfected through the coöperation of Mr. Whitehead.] 1872 Naval Sci. 1 25 The Whitehead torpedo is so new, and as yet so little known, that its influence on tactics is quite in the haze. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Nov. 5/2 A blow with even an ordinary Whitehead, let alone the improved Whitehead of the German navy, would practically rip the bottom out of the strongest ship afloat. 1898 R. Kipling Fleet in Being v. 54 Fancy a Whitehead smitten on the nose by one little shell. You'd go up. 1966 Mariner's Mirror 52 388 She could be armed with a spar torpedo and two Whiteheads carried in side dropping gear. 2002 Mariner's Mirror 88 448 The Whitehead torpedo was an entirely self-contained and self-propelled weapon system. < as lemmas |
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