JPK Huson 1863
Brev. Brig. Gen'l
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2012
- Location
- Central Pennsylvania
At least I don't think so? Haven't seen them if they did. Inventors apparently flocked to have their patents approved, sell products to the armies and make their fortunes from the war. Some reside in our Archives- can't be all of them- for some reason there really are not many. Have to imagine there were a LOT more given the size of greed in general and the profits we all know were indeed made selling awful goods to our government. Our soldiers paid for it, too- ' shoddy ', the cloth which literally melted on contact with water? The brainchild of a scumbucket contractor.
Some inventions were well-intended, some awfully good. Some should have gone into production and did not. There's a design for a breech-loading cannon which look like something from the next war, as advanced as the design looks.
Here's a couple which did not quite make it. Hee.
The Knapsacktent
I ' think' this is the Cloakknapsacktent?
Some inventions were well-intended, some awfully good. Some should have gone into production and did not. There's a design for a breech-loading cannon which look like something from the next war, as advanced as the design looks.
Here's a couple which did not quite make it. Hee.
The Knapsacktent
I ' think' this is the Cloakknapsacktent?
Bringing the