![]() Very properly, what these inventions are, is not proclaimed to the public”. ![]() Abbott described Monitor as not “merely an iron-clad vessel, with a turret but there are, in fact, between thirty and forty patentable inventions upon her, and the turret is by no means the most important one. Abbott’s The History of the Civil War in America, first published in the spring of 1863 even as the battles of Vicksburg and Chancellorsville were raging, and Gettysburg was still a lively manufacturing town untouched by war. ![]() ![]() Introduction: “Forty patentable contrivances”Īmong the many myths that grew up around USS Monitor was that she not only represented a revolutionary concept in naval warfare, marrying steam, armor and a revolving turret, but that her inventor, John Ericsson, had stuffed the ship chock-full of new technologies. ![]()
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