Date: 2013-09-17 06:00 pm (UTC)
"a torpedo loaded with 500 pounds of gun cotton is rushing towards us at thirty knots an hour."

A knot is a measure of speed not of distance. Griffith has this right in the rest of the artical but makes the mistake in this sentence.
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