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Design for a moveable iron-clad battery, n.d.

INVENTOR NAME: Design for a moveable iron-clad battery

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Library of Virginia
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PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
1 sheet
SUMMARY:
The design is apparently a Civil War-era invention of a cannon battery with iron armor which was designed to advance across land on rails to attack the walls of Fort Monroe, Virginia. Extensive pencil notations in the margin explain the design.
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SUBJECTS:  Air & space, Architecture, construction, & building materials, Military, Weapons
 
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