Submarine with disappearing gun
Item
-
Title (Dublin Core)
-
Submarine with disappearing gun
-
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
-
A Gun Which Will Lie Down
-
Caption: This modem submarine has a disappearing gun which folds away below deck
-
extracted text (Extract Text)
-
THE submarine has
been a defensive
weapon in most navies.
Apparently the Germans
were the first to realize
that it had offensive possibilities. We
found a patent the other day applied for
in the United States, by Julius Becker, an
employee of the Krupps. It proves our
point.
It is interesting to note that the patent
was applied for in 1909, showing that
even then Germany was awake to the
uses of the submarine as an offensive
weapon.
A hollowed-out compartment on the
deck of the boat receives the gun. The
gun barrel is mounted on a pivot fork,
turned toward the muzzle, so that when
not in use, the gun can be folded down
horizontally. The pivot support also
folds down, coming either over or under
the barrel of the gun. Four removable
rods, which are joined to the platform,
support the gun column when in use.
A pipe extends from the compartment
to the water. This takes care of any
overflow which may enter when the gun
is in action.
When folded away the gun takes but
little of the limited space
on a submarine, and thus
low-lying and protected
by a water-proof cover, it
offers no resistance to the
submerged travel of the
boat. In other words,
Becker boldly attacked
the problem of arming a submarine with a
weapon which could be raised or lowered
at will, as the vessel came to the surface
or submerged.
-
Language (Dublin Core)
-
eng
-
Date Issued (Dublin Core)
-
1918-03
-
pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
-
368
-
Rights (Dublin Core)
-
Public Domain (Google digitized)
-
Archived by (Dublin Core)
-
Filippo Valle
-
Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 92, n. 3, 1918
