Published Resources Details Letters Patent
- Title
- Improvement in operating a submarine battery connected with a boat or other vessel
- Imprint
- United States Patent Office, 13 May 1862
- Description
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,285.
Accession No.1279
- Abstract
"The nature of my invention consists in the employment of a magazine attached to an arm extending from a vessel under water, said arm being attached to the vessel by means of joints, so that it may receive either lateral or vertical motion by means of suitable machinery arranged within the vessel; and it further consists in the employment of an electric current, produced by a battery or otherwise, for the purpose of firing a battery so connected to a vessel."