Posted inUS Civil War
May 27, 1863 – Railroad Iron Seized
General Longstreet has brought off twenty miles of splendid iron from the track of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, near Suffolk, worth, at present prices, more than half a million…
Posted inEngineering Iron & Steam Science
Electricity Of Steam
Professor Daniell, in his lecture on the chemistry of the atmosphere, delivered at the Royal Institution, took occasion to exhibit the elimination of the electric spark from steam. The extraordinary…