Ludwig Obry
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Ludwig Obry was an Austrian engineer and naval officer of the Austrian Navy who invented a gyroscopic device for steering a torpedo in 1895.
Ludwig Obry's gyroscopic mechanism for steering a Whitehead torpedo, called the "Obry Gear" by the US Navy
Torpedo
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A torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximi
Ludwig Obry
…Ludwig Obry was an Austrian engineer and naval officer of the Austrian Navy who invented a gyroscopic device for steering a torpedo in 1895. The gyroscope had been invented by Leon Foucault in 1851, but industry ignored the device for nearly 50 years. In 1895 or 1896, Obry rediscovered…
Bliss–Leavitt Mark 8 torpedo
Fulton's torpedo
Confederates laying naval mines in Charleston Harbor
NMS Rândunica