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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ors and tiersof guns, the tower to turn on a series of friction-rollers under its base. The princijjal featureof Timbys * invention was that of arrangingthe guns radially within the tower, and firingeach gun at the instant of its coming in linewith the object aimed at during the rotarymotion of the tower, precisely as invented byBloodgood. About twenty years ago certaininfluential citizens presented drawings of Tim-bys revolving tower to the authorities at^Vashington, with a view of obtaining ordersto build such towers for coast defense; but 288 THE MOXITORS. the plan was found to be not only very ex-pensive, but radically detective in principle.The slides of the gun-carriages being fixedpermanently in a radial direction within thetower, the £juns. of course, are directed to all Unfortunately, before the battery left NewYork for Hampton Roads, it was suggestedat the Navy Yard to insert a plaited hemprope between the base of the turret and thebronze ring, for the purpose of making the
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UA;TLE UK MOLILE UAV, AIUISI 5, 1804. THE MONITORS CAPTURING THE IRON-CLAD RAM TENNESSEE. points of the compass. Hence, during anattack by a hostile fleet, with many shipsabreast, only one assailant can be fired at, itscompanions being scot-free in the dead angleformed between the effective gun and theguns on either side. In the mean time thenumerous guns, distributed round the toweron the several floors, cannot be fired untiltheir time comes during the revolution of thetower. The enemys fleet continuing its ad-vance, of course, calls for a change of elevationof the pieces, which, considering the constantrevolution of the tower and the differentaltitudes above the sea of the several tiers,presents perjjlexing difficulties. Nothing fur-ther need be said to explain why the (lovern-ment did not accept the jjlans for Timbysrevolving towers. The origin of rotating circular gun-plat-forms being disposed of, the consideration ofthccentralsectionof the illustration will now beresumed. It will

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