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Fontana, Giovanni da (c.1395–1455)
Italian author of a sketchbook Bellicorum instrumentorum liber (Book of War Instruments), published in 1420, in which appear various rocket-propelled devices including a cart designed to smash through enemy strongholds and a surface-running torpedo for setting fire to enemy ships.
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