Bangalore torpedo
The Bangalore torpedo was devised by Captain R. L. McClintock, of the Royal Engineers while attached to the Madras Sappers and Miners unit of the Indian Army at Bangalore, India, in invented it as a means of blowing up booby traps and barricades left over from the Second Boer War and the RussoJapanese War. The Bangalore torpedo could be exploded over a mine without a sapper having to ...