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Torpedo (1864)

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  Torpedo (1864) *Giovanni Luppis creates the self-propelled uncderwater missile. *"Damn the torpedoes.... Captain Crayton, go ahead! Joucett, full speed!" Admiral David Farragut, Battle of Mobile Bay, 1864 "Torpedoes are examined on the derk of a target ship after a test firing from HMS Snapper in 1940 The British 7,000-ton steamer Beluchistan sank after this torpedo strike by the German U-boat U-68 in 1942".                         NDespite its notoriety as a naval weapon, the fir modem torpedo was developed in landincked Austa or rather by a retired army officer in what was then the Austrian Empire stretching down to the Adriatic Sea 1864 Giovanni Luppis (1813-1875) presented his idea of using small, unmanned boats carrying explosives against enemy ships to Robert Whitehead (1823 1905), an English engineer producing stram engines for the Austrian Navy Similar devices (spar torpedoes) were also employed in the American Civil War taking place at the same time. Howe
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Safety match

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                                          Safety Match It is the very common thing in human life.Safety Match was developed in 1844 by the swedish chemistry professor GUSTAF - ERIK- PASCH(1788-1862). He replaced the dangerous white phosphorous in the flammable mixture coating the Match head with nontoxic red phosphorus, which was far less flammable. After obtaining a patentfor the new safety Match , pasch manufactured them in a factory in Stockholm by high costs. Another swede John -Edvard-Lundstron ,improve the pasch's safety match by placing the red phosphorus on sandpaper on the outer edge of the box,and in 1855 he obtained a patent for his new safety match.This model was manufactured on a large scale and Lundstrom,along with his brother Carl -Frans, created a virtual global monopoly on safety match.
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