The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-05-28

.euYGTtnR SaSl1d4L3S AAO"
OF Newport Some OF these UNDER
water vessels passed most severe
test by making the run OF loo from
their station at Pensacola, Fla. to
New York for the review by the pres,
ident.
1t is interesting to note that Robert
Fulton, the inventor OF the steamboat.
designed a submarine and was caateo
crafty. murderous villain for sug-
costing It's use In war. The, Confed-
crates had submarine which they
it the federal ship Housatonic on
Charleston But this submarine was
not heard OF atterward and, years later
when the sunken warship was exam
med, the submarine and the remains
of its crew were found nearby. In
war as recent as the Spanish-Amer
lean there were no submarines Eng
land authorized the first OF her un-
derwater craft in 1901-02. 1t IS since
that time that these boats have found
place in he navies OF the world.
The submarine and the torpedo have
developed side by side The sub
marine is. as matter OF fact but an
instrument for the launching Of tor
pedoes. II would be useless Without
these project1es. The torpedo has
much wider use than the submarine.
It IS the instrument of attack used
by the deadly destroyer Ever: bat
tleship has its torpedo rooms and its
underwater tubes through which
silently launched on their careers of
destruction The small, short range
torpedo Of the submarine is by no
means the marvellous instrument that
| is its fellow of the baCtleShip, the lat
est Development OF which may go forth
| for a journey OF five miles in quest. of
the thing st-would destroy, and act for
all the world as though 1t had a pilot
aboard.
a part of the battleship maneuvers
OF Newport This week Will be torpedo
! practice The action of these pro-
\ tecIiles. and the manner in which they
serve their purposes may be seen to
! best advantage in the torpedo room
! of batclesnip. There, far below the
water line, these machines that seem
to think are laid away in their berths.
The average torpedo IS twelve feet
! long. weighs SEQ pounds and costs
$4,000. II is shaped like blunt-nosed
cigar. but at the small end is a little
propeller and horizontal and vertical
rudders-
When needed. these machines are
I lei down from their shelves and thrust
/ into the torpedo tube. which extends
through the wall of the vessel There
they are adjusted before being dis
charged This adjustment Of the tor
| pedo IN such way that it viii go
forth and find the target at which il Is
aimed makes possible one of the most
marvellous feats ever accomplished by
a piece OF machinery.
In the first place, torpedo IS not
fired at a target, as IS shell. It Is
merely thrown overheard. whereupon
a compressed air engine that Is inside
its steel jacket sets to work and pro.
peIs t, Just as a ship IS driven a
few years ago a torpedo might be so
driven for but a few hundred yards,
but there are now such instruments
that viii travel five miles before their
compressed air is exhausted.
The torpedo tube is not aimed at
the target which the torpedo IS intend
ed 10 flir. It may be aimed at an angle
forty degrees away from it. This does
not mean that the shot viii be miss.
however. for there is within the tor
wonderful than its compressed air en-
which will guide the torpedo back 10
the target. no matter what direction
It IS pointing. Before II is fred the
men in the torpedo room have re-
ceived reports from the range finders
above deck. These reports give the
position OF the target with relation TO
the torpedo tube 50 exact are the
angles furnished that the SyToscope,
may be ser dead on the target and set
whirling at great rate OF speed