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The first torpedo. Robert Whitehead (right) and his son (left) with a battered test torpedo in Fiume, Austria-Hungary c.1875. Whitehead's initial torpedo experiments were conducted with the help of his 12-year-old son, John, and a workman, Annibale Ploech.
Aug 2, 2023 · Celebrated actor Robert Whitehead is best known for his on-screen character of ‘Barker Haines' on Isidingo. Where is he now?
Robert Whitehead was a British engineer who invented the modern torpedo. In 1856, after serving an apprenticeship in Manchester and working in Marseille, Milan, and Trieste, he organized, with local capital, a marine-engineering works, Stabilimento Tecnico Fiumano, in Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia).
The Whitehead torpedo was the first self-propelled or "locomotive" torpedo ever developed. [a] It was perfected in 1866 by British engineer Robert Whitehead from a rough design conceived by Giovanni Luppis of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in Fiume. [7]
Many inventors had tried to achieve a working self-propelled torpedo, but Robert Whitehead (1823–1905) and Giovanni Luppis (1813–75) would make the most promising advances. The former was an English marine engineer, and the latter had been an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy.
Nov 5, 2019 · Robert Whitehead, a legendary producer of serious dramas, died Sat., June 15, at his home in Pound Ridge, New York, just two weeks after receiving the 2002 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement...
British engineer Robert Whitehead invented and patented the first self-propelled torpedo that was proven to be effective in combat, known as the Whitehead Torpedo. At the age of 14 Robert Whitehead was apprenticed to his uncle, an engineer at Messrs. Richard Ormerod in Manchester.
