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Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran By: Howard I. Chapelle (1901-1975) |
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This is Paper 39 from the Smithsonian Institution United States National
Museum Bulletin 240, comprising Papers 34 44, which will also be
available as a complete e book. The front material, introduction and relevant index entries from the
Bulletin are included in each single paper e book. Note that several Figures in this paper consist of two images separated
from each other in the original layout, with separate labels. These
separate labels are preserved in this text only version. Typographical errors have been corrected as follows: P152: "the Simon & Jude , later called Invention I " (was "latter").
P159: "Its importance is that it..." (was "is that is").
Index: "Emmet, , 144" (was Emmett).]
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 240
[Illustration] SMITHSONIAN PRESS
MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY CONTRIBUTIONS
FROM THE
MUSEUM
OF HISTORY AND
TECHNOLOGY Papers 34 44
On Science and Technology SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ยท WASHINGTON, D.C. 1966
Publications of the United States National Museum The scholarly and scientific publications of the United States National
Museum include two series, Proceedings of the United States National
Museum and United States National Museum Bulletin . In these series, the Museum publishes original articles and monographs
dealing with the collections and work of its constituent museums The
Museum of Natural History and the Museum of History and
Technology setting forth newly acquired facts in the fields of
anthropology, biology, history, geology, and technology. Copies of each
publication are distributed to libraries, to cultural and scientific
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separate form, of shorter papers from the Museum of Natural History.
These are gathered in volumes, octavo in size, with the publication date
of each paper recorded in the table of contents of the volume. In the Bulletin series, the first of which was issued in 1875, appear
longer, separate publications consisting of monographs (occasionally in
several parts) and volumes in which are collected works on related
subjects. Bulletins are either octavo or quarto in size, depending on
the needs of the presentation. Since 1902 papers relating to the
botanical collections of the Museum of Natural History have been
published in the Bulletin series under the heading Contributions from
the United States National Herbarium , and since 1959, in Bulletins
titled "Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology," have
been gathered shorter papers relating to the collections and research of
that Museum. The present collection of Contributions, Papers 34 44, comprises
Bulletin 240. Each of these papers has been previously published in
separate form. The year of publication is shown on the last page of each
paper. FRANK A. TAYLOR
Director, United States National Museum
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM
THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY: PAPER 39 FULTON'S "STEAM BATTERY":
BLOCKSHIP AND CATAMARAN Howard I. Chapelle
SURVIVING DESIGNS FOR FLOATING BATTERIES 145 CONTROVERSIAL DESCRIPTIONS 147 COPENHAGEN PLANS 150 HISTORY OF DOUBLE HULL CRAFT 152 SAIL AND INBOARD PLANS 157 RECONSTRUCTING THE PLANS 161 APPENDIX 167 [FOOTNOTES] [INDEX] [Illustration: Figure 1. SCALE MODEL of Fulton's Steam Battery in
the Museum of History and Technology. (Smithsonian photo P 63390 F.)]
Howard I. Chapelle FULTON'S "STEAM BATTERY": BLOCKSHIP and CATAMARAN Robert Fulton's "Steam Battery," a catamaran type blockship, was built
during the War of 1812. Until recently, not enough material has been
available to permit a reasonably accurate reconstruction of what is
generally acknowledged to be the first steam man of war... Continue reading book >>
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