Inventor Name
Design for a moveable iron-clad battery
Repository
Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219-8000
804-692-3888
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/
Physical Description
1 sheet
Summary
The design is apparently a Civil War-era invention of a cannon battery with iron armor which was designed to advance across land on rails to attack the walls of Fort Monroe, Virginia. Extensive pencil notations in the margin explain the design.