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- Controlled_mines abstract "A Controlled Mine was a circuit fired weapon used in coastal defenses with ancestry going back to 1805 when Robert Fulton termed his underwater explosive device a torpedo:Robert Fulton invented the word torpedo to describe his underwater explosive device and successfully destroyed a ship in 1805. In the 1840s Samuel Colt began experimenting with underwater mines fired by electric current and in 1842, he blew up an old schooner in the Potomac River from a shore station five miles away.“Torpedos” were in use during the American Civil War when such devices were made famous with the order given by David Farragut at Mobile Bay. After that war similar mines were being contemplated or put into use by other nations. In 1869 the United States the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was directed by Secretary of War William Belknap to assume responsibility for torpedoes for coastal defense. That responsibility continued through the formation of the U. S. Torpedo Service as part of the Seacoast defense in the United States. Eventually, after calls for “rifled cannon” to cover the torpedo fields became reality, that service and the Corps of Engineers turned over responsibility to the newly formed U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps in 1903. The terms “mine” and “torpedo” were used interchangeably until modern usage began separating the term with “mine” applied to static explosive devices and “torpedo” to self-propelled or “locomotive torpedo” weapons. Even during the Spanish American War the interchangeable terms caused confusion".
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- Controlled_mines wikiPageExternalLink minemaps.pdf.
- Controlled_mines wikiPageExternalLink Mines.html.
- Controlled_mines wikiPageExternalLink torpedo.htm.
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- Controlled_mines subject Category:Anti-ship_weapons.
- Controlled_mines subject Category:Coastal_fortifications.
- Controlled_mines subject Category:Explosive_weapons.
- Controlled_mines type Anti-shipWeapons.
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- Controlled_mines type ExplosiveWeapons.
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- Controlled_mines comment "A Controlled Mine was a circuit fired weapon used in coastal defenses with ancestry going back to 1805 when Robert Fulton termed his underwater explosive device a torpedo:Robert Fulton invented the word torpedo to describe his underwater explosive device and successfully destroyed a ship in 1805.".
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