GOAT ISLAND AND THE U.S. NAVAL TORPEDO STATION: Guncotton, Smokeless Powder and Torpedoes

Traces the establishment of the Naval Torpedo Station on Goat Island in the harbor of Newport, Rhode Island in 1869 to the modern day serving as the Navy's principal center for the design of torpedoes and the home of the U.S. Navy's most important laboratory for research and development of modern weapons' systems. Fully illus.