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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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Telephone

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Telephone (1876)   Bell Propels communications in to the modern era.        Sixteen years after inventing the telephone, Bell makes the first call from New York to Chicago in 1892.   Technical illustrations of telephone components designed by both Bell and Thomas Edison.     Introduction               In the 1870s Edinburgh born Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)  was working on a way to improve the telegraph. Although this was well   established as a mean of long-distance communication, the fact that only   one message could be sent at any one time mode it extremely limited.   Bell`s original idea was to develop a “harmonic telegram”, using multiple   pitches to transmit more than one message at the same time. While   working on this, an idea came to him for a more elaborate system – one   that could transmit not only the dots and dashes of morse code, but actual   speech.     Information     Several other terms were also pushing to transmit sounds via electricity, and there remains
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