Robert Whitehead has managed to increase the…

1867 CE

Robert Whitehead has managed to increase the torpedo's speed to seven knots (thirteen kilometers per hour) and it can hit a target seven hundred yards (six hundred and forty meters) away by 1870.

The torpedo is driven by a small reciprocating engine run by compressed air.

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