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[edit] David Bushnell

I deleted this:

"The man who invented the first torpedo was US Naval Captain David Bushnell, who tried it out in New York Harbour in 1776. David named it after the Torpedo fish, a ray fish with an natural electric apparatus for killing its prey. Bushnell's torpedo comprised an explosive charge fixed to an enemy hull and was set-off by a clockwork fuse."

Bushnell named the weapon; he used what's now called a limpet mine. I'd hardly call that inventing it. If anybody deserves credit for that, it's Luppius, but Whitehead usually steals his thunder... Trekphiler 13:55, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Two sugestions for changes

1st - Whitehead was nominated tecnical director of "Stabillimento Tecnico Fiumano" in 1858 and not in 1856, as it results from the book: "La Storia del siluro 1860-1936." ed. Silurificio Whitehead di Fiume S. A. - Sede in Fiume, Stabilimento Tipografico Alessandro Pesce 1936-XV., page 10-11 note 1;

2nd - Fotograph on this page was not shoot in Fiume (Rijeka), because man on the right is not R. W., and man on the left is from southeast Asia (Japan, China), and not from Adriatic. It is not known that workers from southeast Asia were ever engaged in Fiume. 213.202.96.116 15:05, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

You could be right - but the caption in the publication from which it was scanned said it was Robert Whithead and that it was taken at the Fiume works in about 1875. It also mentioned that the image was thought to be the earliest known picture of Whitehead, although the article from which it was taken was written in about 1973 and other, earlier ones, may have come to light since. The article itself was written by Edwyn Gray. Ian Dunster 14:35, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sound of Music

His granddaughter, Frances, launched a submarine for the Austrian navy, fell in love with the captain, George von Trapp, and married him. Their children later became famous as the von Trapp singers through the film, the Sound of Music. DNB --jmb 22:16, 4 November 2006 (UTC)