Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 304
ent, as reissued with broadened claims, was bought bythe partners of Ericsson, but without his consent. Theirpurchase, they believed, would give them control of a har-bor defense which they expected the Government to adopton a comprehensive scale. In Timbys design the pilot-house was in the upper… … Floating Battery Invented by Abraham Bloodgood, 1807 on a case common enough in the history of inven-tions, where an idea occurs independently to more seekersthan one. As long ago as 1807 there appeared in Albany, in theTransactions of the Society for the Promotion of UsefulArts in the State of New…
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