Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 62
the modification of his battery were wholly novel, hisoffer was declined. The country was then in desperateneed of armored craft, and the Navy Department was pa-tiently hearing, day by day, designers of new types ofarmored ships. Yet it meant nothing to these naval officialsthat the Stevens family… … JOHN AND ROBERT LIVINGSTON STEVENS 33 tions were of sails and tackle. Since that day every iotaof the Stevens plans has proved not merely feasible, butindispensable. It was a sad sight to her owner to see hisbattery through all the recurrent crises of the Civil War,untouched in her basin. In 1868,…
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