Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 51748-h.htm or 51748-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51748/51748-h/51748-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51748/51748-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/torpedowarsub00fultrich TORPEDO WAR, AND SUBMARINE EXPLOSIONS. by ROBERT FULTON Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, and of the United States Military and Philosophical Society. The Liberty of the Sea will be the Happiness of the Earth. New-York: Printed by William Elliot, 114 Water-Street. 1810 New York Reprinted William Abbatt 1914 Being Extra No. 35 of The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries CONTENTS Page TORPEDO WAR, &c. 5 PLATE I 7 PLATE II 10 PLATE III 13 PLATE IV, Fig. 1 15 Fig. 2 17 PLATE V, Fig. 1 & 2 17 Fig. 3 20 THOUGHTS -- On the probable effect of this invention 20 Estimate of the Force to Attack so Formidable a Blockade Fleet 32 Manner of Arranging the Boats Until Wanted 33 First Mode of Attack 35 Second Mode of Attack 36 ON -- the imaginary inhumanity of Torpedo war 40 A VIEW -- of the political economy of this invention 43 EDITOR'S PREFACE In view of the prominent part played in the present World War by torpedoes and submarines, the subject of our Extra No. 35 is peculiarly timely.