US Patent No. 38371 Projector for Sea Oiling Shells by AH Walker April 3 1888 Old_Virginia_Map Grant 19th Century — a

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The image carries the documentary stillness of a border city held in place by federal bayonets

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US Patent No. 38371 Projector for Sea Oiling Shells by AH Walker April 3 1888 Old_Virginia_Map Grant 19th Century — aUs Patent No. 38371 Projector for Sea Oiling Shells by Ah Walker April 3 1888 A. H. Walker's 1888 engineering filing reads like a maritime curiosity, an apparatus designed to hurl oil filled shells across heaving seas to calm the swells. The schematic belongs to that brief Victorian moment when sailors believed, with patented certainty, that a thrown vessel of oil could tame the Atlantic itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts