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Details for using the torpedoes : autograph memorandum signed : New York, to an unidentified recipient, 1813 Aug. 5.

BIB_ID
159921
Accession number
MA 1322
Creator
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815.
Display Date
1813 Aug. 5.
Description
1 item (11 p.) : ill. ; (8to)
Notes
Signed in two places and illustrated with sketches explanatory of the text on the manner of launching a torpedo against a ship.
The "Genl Duane", through whom Fulton furnished the "clockwork and tricker lock," was Adjutant General of the U.S. Army.
The addressee of this letter may have been Elijah Mix or James Weldon, to both of whom Fulton furnished materials for torpedo attacks on British vessels in 1813 (see D.W. Thomson, R. Fulton's 'Torpedo System'... in U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, 1946, p. 1214-1215.
Written in the form of a letter.