Ivan Vukić was the Austro-Hungarian naval officer who placed the commission that created a prototype self-propelled torpedo .
A prototype self-propelled torpedo was created by a commission placed by croatian Ivan Lupus , an Austro-Hungarian naval officer from Rijeka , Croatia , back in that time a port city of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy , and Robert Whitehead , an English engineer who was the manager of a town factory .
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