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Spis treści w języku angielskim:
- Preface
- CHAPTER I - The early history of the torpedo - Remarks on the existing state of torpedo warfare
- CHAPTER II - Defensive Torpedo Warfare - Mechanical Submarine Mines - Mechanical Fuzes - Mooring Mechanical Mines
- CHAPTER III - Defensive Torpedo Warfare (continued) - Electrical Submarine Mines - Electrical Fuzes - Insulated Electric Cables - Electric Cable Joints - Junction Boxes - Mooring Electrical Submarine Mines
- CHAPTER IV - Defensive Torpedo Warfare (continued) - Circuit Closers - Firing by Observation - Voltaic Batteries - Electrical Machines - Firing Keys and Shutter Apparatus - Testing Submarine Mines - Clearing a Passage through Torpedo Defences
- CHAPTER V - Offensive Torpedo Warfare - Drifting Torpedoes - Towing Torpedoes - Locomotive Torpedoes - Spar Torpedoes - General Remarks on Offensive Torpedoes
- CHAPTER VI - Torpedo Vessels and Boats - The "ULAN" - The "ALARM" - The "DESTROYER" - Thornycroft's Torpedo Boats - Yarrow's Torpedo Boats - Schibau's Torpedo Boats - Herreshoff's Torpedo Boats - Torpedo Boat Attacks - Submarine Boats
- CHAPTER VII - Torpedo Operations - The Crimean War (1854-56) - The Austro-Italian War (1859) - The American Civil War (1861-65) - The Paraguayan War (1864-68) - The Austrian War (1866) - The Franco-German War (1870-71) - The Russo-Turkish War (1877-78)
- CHAPTER VIII - On Explosives - Definitions - Experiments - Gunpowder - Picric Powder - Nitro-Glycerine - Dynamite - Gun-cotton - Fulminate of Mercury - Dualin - Lithofracteur - Horsley's Powder - Torpedo Explosive Agents - Torpedo Explosions
- CHAPTER IX - Torpedo Experiments - Chatham, England, 1865 - Austria - Carlscrona, Sweden, 1868 - Kiel, Prussia - England, 1874 - Copenhagen, Denmark, 1874 - Carlscrona, Sweden, 1874-75 - Portsmouth, England, 1874-75 - Pola, Austria, 1875 - Portsmouth, England, 1876 - Experiments with Countermines - The Medway, England, 1870 - Stokes Bay, England, 1873 - Carlscrona, Sweden, 1874
- CHAPTER X - The Electric Light - The Nordenfelt and Hotchkiss Torpedo Guns - Diving
- CHAPTER XI - Electricity
- APPENDIX
- McEvoy's Single Main Systems
- Siemens' Universal Galvanometer Tables
- Synopsis of the Principal Events that have occurred in connection with the History of the Torpedo
- Index
LIST OF PLATES:
- Destruction of Turkish Gunboat "Suna" (Frontispiece).
- Fulton's Torpedoes.
- Frame Torpedoes, Buoyant Mechanical Mines.
- Singer's and McEvoy's Mechanical Mines.
- Extempore Mechanical Mine, Mechanical Primers.
- Mechanical Fuzes.
- Form of Case of Submarine Mines.
- Electric Fuzes.
- Electric Cables, Extempore Cable Joints.
- Permanent Joints for Electric Cables.
- Junction Boxes, Mechanical Turk's Head.
- Moorings for Submarine Mines.
- Steam Launch for Mooring Submarine Mines.
- Mathieson's Circuit Closer.
- Austrian Circuit Closer, Mercury Circuit Closer.
- McEvoy's Magneto Electro Circuit Closer.
- Russian Submarine Mine, Firing by Observation.
- Apparatus for Firing by Observation.
- Systems of Defence by Submarine Mines.
- Firing Batteries, Testing Batteries.
- Firing Keys, Shutter Apparatus.
- Shutter Apparatus.
- Galvanometers for Testing.
- Siemens' Universal Galvanometer.
- Shunt, Commutator, Rheostat.
- Wheatstone's Bridge.
- Test Table, Differential Galvanometer.
- Methods of Testing - Armstrong - Austrian.
- Drifting Torpedoes.
- Harvey's Towing Torpedo.
- Systems of Attack with Harvey's Sea Torpedo.
- German and French Towing Torpedoes.
- Whitehead's Fish Torpedoes.
- Thornycroft's Boat Apparatus for Fish Torpedoes.
- Lay's Locomotive Torpedo.
- McEvoy's Duplex Spar Torpedoes.
- The "ALARM" Torpedo Ship.
- The "DESTROYER" Torpedo Ship.
- Thornycroft's Torpedo Boats.
- Yarrow's Torpedo Boats.
- Russian Torpedo Boat, Herreshoff's Torpedo Boat.
- Submarine Mine Explosion.
- McEvoy's Single Main System.