fuse-pin

Updated: May 5, 2025

There it touches the fuse-pin and that sets off the high explosive at any depth you arrange it for." I regarded him steadfastly. Then I remarked, "But it did not touch the submarine. I saw it miss." "Yes, you can miss it fifty yards and still crush the submarine." He took up an empty egg shell. "The submarine is hollow like this. She is held rigidly on all her sides by the water.

Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot - Aircraft and Submarines: The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day: Uses of War's Newest Weapons