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Monitor v. Merrimac...
Editor Victor E. Lawson of the Willmar (Minn.) Tribune, in his letter published in TIME, May 24, p. 2, reiterates the fiction that the Confederate ship Merrimac (Virginia) was defeated by, and "fled" from, Ericsson's Monitor...
Ericsson successfully undertook to build an ironclad war vessel in 90 days to cope with the dreaded ironclad Merrimac with which the Confederates hoped to destroy the shipping of the North. In constructing the Monitor, Captain Ericsson invented the turret and its mechanism, and more than 40 patentable ideas which made this armored vessel the precursor of the modern battleship?and all these inventions he presented to the Government for its use without charge. He made for use in this man-of-war the first forged projectile, which he had demonstrated at the proving grounds would penetrate the armor...
Dean Kirtley F. Mather of the Harvard Observatory has been feeling the geologic pulse of New England carefully ever since the earthquake series which she began to experience in September, 1924. He warned her in advance of the shocks felt last month in the Merrimac Valley (TIME, Oct. 19), and last week he told her that worse upheavals are coming, upheavals as violent as those that visited New England in 1775 and about the same calibre as the Santa Barbara shocks last summer. He predicted that the property damage to New England would be great because of the number...
...England's earthquake series, which she has been experiencing in mild instalments since September, 1924, was continued last week. Dean Kirtley F. Mather of the Harvard Observatory had predicted that the Merrimac Valley would be the region next disturbed, and sure enough, crockery fell, a crumbling chimney crashed, canned goods toppled from shelves in the general store at Ossipee, N. H., and court was suspended for five minutes. In neighboring towns folk ran to the streets to hear their old hills rumble. Then, the granite of New England being no more emotional than the people who dwell upon...