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AUSTRIA/ITALY, 25. Jahrestag der Torpedo-Fabrik von Robert Whitehead, Rijeka [25th...
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AUSTRIA/ITALY, 25. Jahrestag der Torpedo-Fabrik von Robert Whitehead, Rijeka [25th Anniversary of the Robert Whitehead Torpedo Factory], 1900, a uniface bronze medal by H. Kautsch, allegorical female seated with olive branches, surveying a view of the Whitehead industrial complex at Fiume, 76mm, 144.45g (cf. Pesek 13, 1045; cf. Spink 17.vii.97, 227; cf. DNW 35, 608). Very fine, rare £30-£40
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Robert Whitehead (1823-1905), inventor, b. Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire; designer and builder of engines fitted to ships in the Austro-Hungarian navy. Whitehead was manager of the Stabilimento Technico di Fiume, on the Adriatic coast, where he made design improvements to the Lupuis torpedo by fitting a balance chamber so that the torpedo, when fired, would maintain a uniform depth. Germany and Italy bought non-exclusive manufacturing rights to the Whitehead torpedo in 1873 but the original company went bankrupt, only for Whitehead to found his own company, Torpedo-Fabrik von Robert Whitehead, in 1875
AUSTRIA/ITALY, 25. Jahrestag der Torpedo-Fabrik von Robert Whitehead, Rijeka [25th Anniversary of the Robert Whitehead Torpedo Factory], 1900, a uniface bronze medal by H. Kautsch, allegorical female seated with olive branches, surveying a view of the Whitehead industrial complex at Fiume, 76mm, 144.45g (cf. Pesek 13, 1045; cf. Spink 17.vii.97, 227; cf. DNW 35, 608). Very fine, rare £30-£40
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Robert Whitehead (1823-1905), inventor, b. Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire; designer and builder of engines fitted to ships in the Austro-Hungarian navy. Whitehead was manager of the Stabilimento Technico di Fiume, on the Adriatic coast, where he made design improvements to the Lupuis torpedo by fitting a balance chamber so that the torpedo, when fired, would maintain a uniform depth. Germany and Italy bought non-exclusive manufacturing rights to the Whitehead torpedo in 1873 but the original company went bankrupt, only for Whitehead to found his own company, Torpedo-Fabrik von Robert Whitehead, in 1875
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