| Show i How the Deadly y Whitehead Torpedo Tor edro Leaves Lemnos the Tube Tubey t U fi fix J JJ i r fl rv i r i k i S v l I i J J r x i r W if n nV nS 1 V V S ti rl r M c ci cr i t r c t r I tun cI e f 4 3 5 2 D 1 h lU 1 I f a 7 t Y C S k 1 1 11 hornet that Issues forth from froma c a THE hit his paper house houie and goes goe as se straight and almot at III fait fast as liS a aIS IS ballet bullit Ice tor or the small boys boyi nose note Is the theat at H thing In nature that even Its resembles th the modern torp torpedo do a Titre it is this thil difference however The wand m made d by the land hornet Is I iw merely y painful but when the sea her hor nit ml stints the skin akin of a battleship It Is I lit fatal lata I There aro are other differ Jt tt i man it II the sailors at Port Atha could eloquently te testify Here Ml sith Vl l It is shown one cne of the these theu Innocent l hiking projectiles Just jutt pushing Its Ita nt nm out of the tube Whitehead that thatIs THE Is le the sort used by both Russia and Ind Japan U made mads of steel or phosphor bronze and It le shaped like a porpoise I with the largo large end In front It ItI ItIs Is I from fourteen to eighteen feet long and from fourteen to eighteen Inches In diameter at the tha thickest part It It is I dl di divided vided Into eight of which tho the first or one nearest the tho head consists of tho the firing arrangement This It la a pointed rod with tho tiro blunt end ond extend Ing from the tho head and the tho point reach reaching reachIng ing Into the second or explosive cham chamber ber her Tho The show tho the missile being launched on Its Ita way of death baby bilby as It Is U called by the THE seamen has hili trifle far farther farther farther ther from Its cradle It Ie Is a n rather active Infant remarkable alike for Intelligence Int and pugnacity When Whon over ever Its note nose strikes a 1 hard substance It goes all to pieces and leaves behind an aching void Tho The second section of its It body containing the tho explosive lve chamber consists of n R detonator cap made of fulminate of mercury and a liberal charge of gun cotton cotten As the tho point of the pin Is J driven Into the cap the tho fulminate Ignites expands expand to 2500 times Its ita it former size silO and In turn ex explodes explodes cotton E subdued and peculiar sound THE TH made by the tube tubo In expelling tho the torpedo Is I called n cough This Is le appropriate for the reason that the tha firing Is le done by meant means of compressed air which also alio the tho motor power tho the missile It Itself coif self It must mut be borne In mind that after being launched tho the projectile becomes a sort of submarine boat navigating Itself automatically through the tho water The third section lection or compressed air chamber chambor furnishes the power The Tho walls walla of this section are mado made to withstand a pressure of 1700 pounds to the square aquara Inch fourth compartment of a I THE Whitehead Is ii I the balance or secret chamber and contains contain an Ingenious contrivance of valve and pendulum by means mean of which the tho mis mia missile silo sile Is la held at a certain depth below the surface of the tho water and Is la s also kept In a straight line The Tho valve ra rl spends to the tho water pressure of tho the sea ao If the tho torpedo goes gall below the re ra required depth the denser denaer water opens tho the valve In one ono ways way I If above that depth the tho decreased pressure causes caune It to open In exactly tho the reverse rever way WIY This action actio Is II transferred to the tho mo ma motor motor mator tor controlling tho the horizontal rudders fifth section of the torpedo con contains contains THE the tho engines en gin which are aro worked by th the compressed air The Tho sixth Is le tho the buoyancy chamber re resembling resembling resembling the tho air bladder of a fish ih The Tho seventh Is I tho the bevel wheel chamber and the eighth and rut list the tho vertical and horizontal ru rudders and the tho double crew screw propellers Thero There are art two sorts ort of tubes tub used In launching the tho missiles those thosa above the water line lino and those tholO below The Tho Illustrations represent a tube ahoy above water line lino It Is II set lOt at an n angle anglo that sends tho the projectile into the thea sea a at a short hort distance from tho the torpe torpo torpedo do boat I r HE plunge of tha the torpedo Into the they i t THE T water opens open a valve which lets 1 the compressed air Into the tho en engins gins room and starts the tho machinery v The propellers then begin to revolve I and the tho steering apparatus to operate This also alao sets aeta a fan moving which reels a collar off the tho pointed pin and Id releases tho the firing apparatus Up to this point tho the missile Is la not dangerous The Tho Whitehead Is II named for its It In Inventor Inventor venter who gave It to tho the world In 1866 1366 It travels at t a speed of twenty two knots knoll an hour and Is le usually fired 1 at a range ranDe of from to 00 yards yard It ItIs 1 I Is la I the tho most moat effective modern torpedo H u I I |
