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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]
Robert established the world's first torpedo factory in Fiume Austria-Hungary (today Rijeka, Croatia), followed by another in Weymouth, United Kingdom. The von Trapp children's great-grandfather, British Engineer Robert Whitehead, despite building the.
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...
Inventor of the Torpedo – 1875. What follows is the story of how Giovanni Luppis and Robert Whitehead produced the first torpedo in the city of Rijeka. Their weapon has since become an irreplaceable asset in naval warfare.
The British engineer Robert Whitehead developed the self-propelled underwater explosive device from earlier inventions by the American Robert Fulton and the Italian Giovanni de Lupis. Whitehead operated across Europe.
Jan 3, 2023 · On January 3, 1823, English engineer Robert Whitehead was born. Whitehead is most famous for developing the first effective self-propelled naval torpedo . With this he created a weapon that decisively influenced both world wars.
Robert Whitehead. 1823-1905. British engineer and inventor who developed the first self-propelled torpedo in 1866. Whitehead's torpedo was driven by a compressed-air engine and carried a 15kg explosive charge. It also featured a self-regulating device for maintaining a constant preset depth.
