BIB_ID
208172
Accession number
MA 153.2
Creator
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815.
Display Date
1810 Mar. 28.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 24.2 cm.
Notes
Endorsed on verso by Jefferson.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1909; from the Hellman Collection.
Summary
Sending him "a sketch of a self acting Bélier Hydraulic" and instructions for constructing it; saying "Perhaps the enthusiasm which is necessary to urge an inventor to unremitting exertion has carried my views beyond the power of Torpedoes," and offering his views on the efficacy of torpedo boats.
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