Nautilus - American Civil War Document

Nautilus - American Civil War Document is an interesting printed document from 1860 ca. entitled 'The Nautilus system of coast defence', which illustrates the innovative project for a defensive system of the Union's US coastline.

This document shows the defensive system based on new military technologies : “…In bringing before the government the Nautilus System of Coast Defence for trial and test, the inventor claims that by the application of his new Nautilus principle in combination with elements of power, already approved by military science, with the addition of others, elaborated by himself by careful and repeated experiment - the whole to be governed at will by the electric wire - he has produced a class, or series of military engines, which if duly placed and managed, will render our harbours and channels absolutely invulnerable to naval forces...".

One page in-4. On the verso, autograph lines and signature of the author, M. Storm.