8 Bells Lecture | Chuck Veit: The U.S. Navy's Secret Torpedo Program of 1862

[@69Applekrate]

Really enjoyed this and learned a lot so, thank you for posting. My only suggestion, if possible, would be to have the camera closer to his screen. It is hard to see what he is showing and would be really nice to see it better.

[@parrot849]

It boggles the mind when one considers the gap of success that lay between Mr. Hunt’s now presumed successes in designing and building a working torpedo prototype in the middle of the 19th century, and that ridiculous tubular pile of junk called the Mk. 14 created by those criminally egotistical “wizards” employed at the 1930-40’s U.S. Naval Bureau of Ordnance and who were responsible for negligently providing the Mk. 14 to our submarine officers and men at the start of World War Two and continued to do so for another two and a half years.

[@69Applekrate]

trying to watch it again 3 years later. frustrating that I cannot see the screen well bummer, a disappointment