Torpedo War - Robert Fulton - Hardcover - Swallow Press SFR • 1 x Pre-painted Long

• 1 x Pre-painted Long fence

Its use as a war machine is graphically recounted in Indian epics and Chinese chronicles

He describes how Scotland was transformed from a backward and feudal economy to a new centre of emergent capitalism

are shown tackling the vital problems of a war-scarred continent

this work includes a development of amateur photography in a wartime context

Torpedo War - Robert Fulton - Hardcover - Swallow Press SFR • 1 x Pre-painted LongA reprint of the first edition (1810) of Fulton's famous treatise on torpedo warfare, probably the most important early work devoted to this novel naval technology. Herein Fulton describes his system of submarine explosives which he had demonstrated to Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and other leaders from the House and Senate, at the home of his friend, Joel Barlow. The plates depict the brig, Dorothea, "as she was blown up on the 15th of Oct.