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@@khlailalshmary3843 the spinning flywheel provided the energy, as well as the primary stability.

@@khlailalshmary3843 A steam engine onboard the launching vessel spun up the main flywheel before launch.

@@bob2161 It only have a range around 450 meter, but it does not leave a bubble column behind the torpedo.

@@user-ro9zf9kz1h True. However, at such a limited range, even with no bubbles, I would think the vessel launching the weapon is still at high risk of being detected. I guess I hadn't realized just how limited the weapons range was. Even so, it is hard to not admire the concept itself, and the engineering required to develop it into an operational weapon. Given the specified requirements and the technical limitations of the times, it was still an impressive feat.

it is terrible to imagine how much one shot cost and in General the complexity of making a torpedo

@@mrOL100 It's cheap by comparison

@@mrOL100 Cheap compared to a battleship.......

Agreed! I study mechanical engineering and it's sad that the most cutting edge tech is almost always employed in killing each other. This completely mechanical device is a marvel for the nineteenth century! Hard to believe that the Civil War had ended just a couple decades prior to this being thought up.

@@haroldkline4898 A sad fact that most of the technology comes out of war and space tech since astronomical sums are spent on it;humans are very creative in inventing ever more advanced gadgets to more effectively kill their fellow humans

500 yards under water is quite a distance. Amazing

@@DaDaDo661 Short range, but still great to use in coastal defense, as nobody has detection countermeasures besides their pair of eyes. And there is a lot less materials that self-degrade overtime. Clockwork tech remains functional so long as the parts don't physically fail or rust. The explosive components may degrade depending on material.

It's the large mass of the flywheel (130 lbs.) and high revolutions (10,000 to 12,000 rpm.) that creates the stored energy.

@@DaDaDo661 one was reported to have run true and at a high and constant speed for 900 yards during testing.

Thank you. Have you seen my other animations on my 'vbbsmyt' channel? Rob

pure mechanic and yet it's effective.

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Technology? This is witchcraft!

Im building a replica in my backyard as this animation gives me all the technical measurements i require

Thank you. Rob

I totally agree. Just my best wishes.i care for a ultimate sailboat from this period, and the wood ,bronze ,copper.lead and gold skills

Used in the construction are on this level. Just refined over centuries. Now almost lost.or dubbed down to a base skill.thanks .

They had a better education system and higher standards for entry so it shouldn't come as that big of a suprise. Most college graduates couldn't pass an old entry exam when they graduate.

@@EvitoCruor And that's just total bullshit, what you're talking

@@EvitoCruor i saw teslas school certificate when he went to uni in graz and just the subjects broke my head, although here in germany especially bavaria we have challenging subjects, but nowhere as hard as they had it 100 years before

@@EvitoCruor Das hat damit doch gar nichts zu tun. Zu der Zeit war selbst eine Glühlampe Hightech. Schon mal eine rein mechanische Uhr gesehen und wie Komplex diese ist? Dieses Wissen hat sich über Jahrhunderte Entwickelt und war auch gut bekannt, es hat nichts mit dem Bildungssystem von damals oder Heute zu tun. Selbst die "einfachen" Verschlussregister von 100-120 Jahre alten Stellwerken (die es heute noch zahlreich in Deutschland gibt) sehen für einen Laien sehr eindrucksvoll aus. Übrigens, der Ottomotor kommt auch aus dieser Zeit und ist auch heute noch mechanisch komplex und hat sich nicht wesentlich zu damals verändert.

I would like to see how those ancient enginner would do in front of excel...

and trowit into the sewer and wait to see who is the lucky one that get ass blowed up

You still dont know the chemistry involved into the explosives :)

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You can try 3D printing 😜

Imagine if they discovered magnetic detonators at that time... Then, they'd never blow up. "During World War II, magnetic pistols often exploded prematurely or not at all. The reason was that magnetic lines are more horizontal close to the equator than towards the poles. For example, the US Mark 6 magnetic pistol was designed and tested only once at 41° latitude (60° geomagnetic latitude) at Narragansett Bay, but was primarily used in equatorial latitudes. At the equator, the signal strength to the Mark 6 magnetic pistol was only about half that of where the Mark 6 was tested. Moreover, relative velocity (i.e. when a torpedo is fired from behind or in front of a ship) would additionally change the abruptness of the magnetic signal, resulting in the magnetic pistol being triggered prematurely or not at all."

In this modern-day of Technology we need to start looking back at what we could have done over a hundred years ago you never know what Solutions you might find from then that could fix a problem now more reliably and easily it's astonishing the ingenious work that went into things like this

Glad you liked it. Have you seen my other animations on my 'vbbsmyt' channel? Rob

Thank you, Rob

If you keep the flywheel spinning at the same speed using an electric motor, you do put in all the energy needed to run the torpedo ... and then you might as well remove the flywheel and use the space and mass for more explosives or more batteries. If you run down the flywheel, just slower, all you add is the power inherent in the flywheel, again sacrificing a larger warhead or space for batteries --- and you will find that batteries have a better power to weight and space to weight ratio, especially in something as small as a 14.4" torpedo ... a larger flywheel inherently stores a lot more power. Also, spinning the flywheel up to 10k RPM needs a power source, like steam --- not a great idea in submarines --- and the flywheel made a hell of a racket, too. Then comes the extra complexity with the added flywheel and mechanism ... more stuff to break, more stuff to maintain. And it is only useful when you have trainable torpedo launcher platforms, because it will not make a turn to the final course after leaving the torpedo tube. Which precludes submarines from operating it.

Sadly in many ways mechanical engineering has regressed as technology has moved in to fill the areas with cheaper alternative Solutions this is my conclusion and it has left me unsatisfied with the way today's machines work I like computers don't get me wrong but some things were done right back then and should still be done right today

Where's mechanical engineering at today? Regular hard drive disk head mechanisms. Mechanical precision down to trackings few hundred nanometer wide tracks, mass produced and costing so little that memory chips have hard time keeping up with byte per buck ratio.

nazi space magic

@@blockstacker5614 The guidance system ran off compressed air. Magic indeed.

@@Willy_Tepes Wasn't it a compass header?

@@anthrazite I saw some technical drawings of it years ago in a AGARD publication and it was quite ingenious and totally mechanical. The gyro was amazing.

The Howell flywheel driven torpedoes were retired by 1900, either you are referring to 'torpedoes' in general or my congratulations on living past 120 years.

Cole Parker, Actually they found the halves of one that broke apart - maybe on impacting its target (as a practice round it wouldn't have a live warhead so no boom)

@@colbeausabre8842 Really? I thought they found the whole thing. Thanks for the info.

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This torpedo has a range of 500 m. So steam your ship to within 500m, point it at the target and fire (and hope you don't get shot out of the water by the target).

War always uses the best technology