Published Resources Details Newspaper Article
- Title
- John Lay dies destitute
- In
- New York times
- Imprint
- 21 April 1899, p. 5
- Description
Accession No.1655
- Abstract
"John Louis Lay, formerly engineer in the United States Navy, inventor of the torpedo with which Cushing blew up the Confederate warship Albemarle in 1864, and later attached to the Peruvian Navy, died homeless and penniless last Monday in Bellevue Hospital."