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Title: Engineering drawings for a submarine ('Submarine Vessel, Submarine Bombs and Mode of Attack') for the United States government
Creator(s): Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815, inventor
Date Created/Published: 1806.
Summary: Includes preliminary and working drawings showing submarine, mines, bombs, anchors, valves, pumps, sighting and mine mechanisms, bomb hooks, ropes and cables, and mine blockade of the British Channel, and a ship ('the brig Dorthea') as plans, elevations, sections, and details; sketches and renderings.
Notes:
Project title from Parsons' Robert Fulton and the submarine, 1922.
UNIT title devised.
Formerly in the collection of the New Jersey Historical Society.
Client's name from Hutcheon's Robert Fulton: Pioneer of undersea warfare, 1981.
Purchase; Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc.; 1984; (DLC/PP-1984:144).
Finding aid (unpublished): Filed by UNIT number, available in Prints and Photographs Reading Room.
Subjects:
Submarines--American--1800-1810.
Mines (Weapons)--1800-1810.
Anchors--1800-1810.
Bombs--1800-1810.
Machinery--1800-1810.
Sailing ships--1800-1810.
Blockades--American--English Channel--1800-1810.
Engineering drawings--1800-1810.
Renderings--1800-1810.
Sketches--1800-1810.
Bookmark /95861051/
Bookmark:95861051
Bookmark:95861051
Size
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