During the 1850s, he urged the revolving battery on Emperor Napoleon III, but it appears that his innovation was not accepted by anyone until 1861-1862. Then it was utilized by inventon John Ericsson as a distinctive feature on his first Monitor. (Some say it was the ship's most distinctive innovation.)
After the Monitor proved successful, Timby, then a resident of Worcester, Massachusetts, was granted two patents on July 8, 1862 (No. 35,846 and No. 35,847), for a revolving battery tower discharging guns by electricity,
In September he received another patent for a revolving battery tower. Ericsson's associates in the business of building monitors for the government acquired these patents almost at once and thus silenced all claims if infringement.
--Old B-Runner
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