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Europe / /
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United Kingdom / United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
New York harbor / Boston Harbor / Library of New Haven Colony Historical Society / Naval Hospital / Newport Harbor / Middlebury College / New Haven Museum’s Whitney Library / Fort Warren / Fort Taylor / Pascal Plant / Torpedo Station / /
IndustryTerm
propellant gas / energy / metal / kinetic energy penetrator / aerodynamic car / pent-up gas / launch device / mining / /
NaturalFeature
Potomac River / Narragansett Bay / James river / Florida Reef / /
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John S. Barnes / Mark Ragan / Dave Dziewulski / W. B. Cushing / John Paccione / Emily Dickinson / Edward B. Hunt / Emily Dickenson / E. B. Hunt / Alexander C. Twining / Scott K. St. Louis / John Sanford / Bache / William P. Trowbridge / B. Hunt Modern / Helen Hunt / Valerie Sherer / Chuck Veit / Helen Hunt Jackson / Van Nostrand / Edward Bissell Hunt / /
Position
brilliant officer / Captain / assistant to Dr. Bache / Assistant Engineer / Sea Miner / Secretary / Superintendent / accomplished officer / Official / designer / Major / accomplished scientist / accomplished engineer / Major-General / assistant / editor / Chief Engineer / scientist / The name Sea Miner / Assistant Professor of Civil and Military Engineering / Adjutant General / fellow military engineer / reporter / military engineer / recognized and accomplished scientist / /
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New York Herald / The New York Evening Post / the Army and Navy Journal / Boston Herald / the Army & Navy Journal / Scientific American / New Nation / /
The Strangest Weapon of Them All Edward B. Hunt’s Sea Miner By Chuck Veit, with Dave Dziewulski and John Paccione © 2013, Chuck Veit In the summer of 1862, workers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard began construction on a ve