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Fiske, Bradley Allen

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Fiske, Bradley Allen (1854-1942)

US naval officer and inventor. As a naval officer (1874-1916), he developed over sixty patents, including those for submarine protection devices, telescopic sights for naval guns, and the mechanism for launching a torpedo from a plane (1912).

He was born in Lyons, New York. He resigned from the navy after a series of disagreements with the secretary, Josephus Daniels.


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