In the story that followed, the Times noted that "the United States Government is supplying its Navy with a new engine of destruction which will be a deadly step in the evolution of modern warfare. ...

The manufacturer and its inventor Leavitt corrected the problem in subsequent models of the Bliss-Leavitt torpedo by using a twin-turbine engine driving contra-rotating twin propellers, thus steadying the armament's waterborne trajectory.

But an English competitor emerged, Whitehead, and the competition between the two firms subsequently drove torpedo technology forward, resulting in a flurry of new models following the turn of the twentieth century.

In short order the E. W. Bliss Company turned out its Mark 6 model, which used horizontal turbines and could be launched above-water (but with limited range of 2,000 yards).

[7] "In 1912, the E. W. Bliss Company produced its finest torpedo to date, the Bliss-Leavitt Mark 7", writes Anthony Newpower in his authoritative Iron Men and Tin Fish.

The Bliss-Leavitt Mark 7 was introduced into the United States Navy Fleet in 1912, and the design proved so resilient and far-sighted that it remained in use for an unprecedented 33 years – up to and including service in World War II.

[11][12] The Navy considered the new weapon so essential to its arsenal that it sued in federal court in 1913 to prevent the E. W. Bliss Company from revealing any details of its manufacture to foreign countries.

[13] In its petition asking an injunction preventing company officials from telling British officials the technical details of the revolutionary torpedo, Assistant United States Attorney General Malcolm A. Coles told a U.S. District Court Judge that the court must "protect the right arm of the nation's defense" – the Navy – by granting a U.S. government request for an injunction preventing Bliss from revealing the technical specifications of the weapon to a British company.