Trivia 5-8-15 Name that Spring & Friday Bonus

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What was the name of the spring that just sprouted up out of the ground one day at Andersonville prison?

Credit: @Seduzal

Bonus

In 1863, Richmond dentist Dr. Finley Hunt, came up with an invention that caught the attention of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. What was this invention and why did the Confederacy not implement it?

credit: @Northern Light
 
Providence Spring

Hunt came up with a steam-powered airplane that due to the weight of the engine had no chance of getting off the ground.
 
Name that spring: Providence Spring

"In the summer of 1864, tens of thousands of Union POWs were dying of thirst at the military prison in Andersonville, Georgia. Suddenly, a spring erupted from the ground within the stockade. The POWs credited its appearance to divine intervention, and "Providence Spring" became part of the established lore of the Civil War". - See more at: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/28460#sthash.cS9EmF0W.dpuf

Bonus: Hunt had invented a flying machine or airplane - The Engineering Bureau for the Confederacy doubted that the machine could be successfully built, Hunt was supposed to have overestimated the engine's power. But in the end, trying to build it would have cost too much money.

"Halfway through the Civil War, a dentist in Richmond,Virginia, of unknown engineering ability, theorized that he could build an airplane. Dr. R. Finley Hunt thought his steam-powered vehicle could help the Confederacy. [...] In 1863, Davis referred Hunt to Robert E. Lee, who in turn directed him to Colonel Jeremy F. Gilmer, Chief of the Engineer Bureau for the Confederacy. Gilmer appointed a board of engineers to review Hunt’s idea, but the report came back unfavorable.Hunt later appealed to Davis that he needed the help of “a machinist in the armory” to build and test his flying device. He believed that with some mechanical assistance he could succeed, and that the reluctance of the board to endorse his ideas came from a misunderstanding of his concept. In its report the board said it “differ[ed] widely from [Hunt] in estimates and results [but] will confine ourselves in great measure to a discussion of the application of steam.”
http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/finley-hunts-flying-machine-93170974/

"First, the engineers said Hunt had dramatically overestimated the engine’s power and ability to keep the machine flying. They also described another error in Hunt’s reasoning as being ‘so obvious on reflection that no discussion is required [...]He fought that and wound up writing the Confederate president directly, and after a long time and a lot of talk, it was finally scrapped; not because they didn’t want to try, but because trying would have cost too much money."
http://www.guns.com/2011/09/16/confederate-inventor-r-finley-hunts-steampowered-aircraft/
 
Providence Spring
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/28460

Bonus: Dr, hunt's invention was a design for a steam powered airplane, and it was not implemented by the Confederacy because one: "Colonel Jeremy F. Gilmer, Chief of the Engineer Bureau for the Confederacy. Gilmer appointed a board of engineers to review Hunt’s idea, but the report came back unfavorable," and two: "the weight of a steam engine proved a challenge for ever getting off the ground."
http://www.airspacemag.com/history-...-flying-machine-93170974/#YGkCSKVFyVvlSJa6.99
 
What was the name of the spring that just sprouted up out of the ground one day at Andersonville prison?

Credit: @Seduzal

Bonus

In 1863, Richmond dentist Dr. Finley Hunt, came up with an invention that caught the attention of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. What was this invention and why did the Confederacy not implement it?

credit: @Northern Light
Providence Spring. ( Andersonville) BONUS: "Flying Machine" (Steampowered Warplane). With the weight of a steam engine, it cost too much money and the engineers wouldn't build it.
 
Providence is the name of that spring

The dentist designed a steam-powered flying machine for the purpose of dropping bombs on da enemy. One reason for the rebel government's refusal to authorize work on a prototype was pecuniary - they didn't have the money - but perhaps if not for the totally negative report produced by Gilmore, the Chief of the Engineer Bureau, they might have tried. Gilmore's team questioned Hunt's optimistic calculations of weight/power ratios and (this is classic) made the unanswerable argument that another problem was "so obvious on reflection that no discussion is required."
 
Providence Spring

Bonus - A steam powered military flying machine that could drop bombs from the air. It was determined by the Confederate Chief of the Engineer Bureau, impossible and could not be built. (Dr. Finely's lack of engineering was also hinderance to the project.)
 
Providence Spring.

Bonus:
It was a plan for a Steam Powered Flying Machine which the Confederate Army Engineers pointed out would be too heavy to fly.
 
Providence Spring

Bonus: The invention was a steam powered flying machine to be used for war purposes. It was not implemented because the board of engineers appointed by Col Jeremy Gilmer to review the design came back with an unfavorable report.
 
The Spring at Andersonville was called Providence Spring.

Hunt's invention was a steam powered "flying bombing machine". Somewhat like a primitive bomber. Hunt wrote a letter about it to Davis who hooked him up with RE Lee who brought in the Confederate Bureau of Engineers in the discussion and the Chief of it dismissed the idea because he thought that there was no way that that could fly. In so many words....
 
Providence Spring.

Bonus: The steam powered flying machine was rejected because Confederate engineers did not believe his engine had enough power to fly the aircraft.
 
Fri question- Providence Spring
Bonus question- steam powered flying machine The board of engineers appointed by the CSA's chief engineer came back with a report unfavorable towards its further development.
 
Providence Spring

Bonus:
The invention was a steam-powered a flying machine. "In 1863, Davis referred Hunt to Robert E. Lee, who in turn directed him to Colonel Jeremy F. Gilmer, Chief of the Engineer Bureau for the Confederacy. Gilmer appointed a board of engineers to review Hunt’s idea, but the report came back unfavorable." "In its report the board said it “differ[ed] widely from [Hunt] in estimates and results [but] will confine ourselves in great measure to a discussion of the application of steam.”
 
Bonus Question

A steam- powered vehicle. His invention of a flying machine. The vehicle was not a unique-idea at the time.
www.airspacemag.com

Edit - The question asked not only for an explanation of what the dentist invented but also for an explanation of why the Confederacy did not implement the idea. I'm accepting any responses along the lines of "because it wasn't going to work," but unfortunately I cannot find a usable answer through your link and I do not feel that the fact that the vehicle was not a unique idea would explain why the Confederacy didn't implement it.

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