In the ensuing world famous battle, which would render all the navies of the world obsolete, the Monitor with its Timby Turret and low freeboard technology turned back the Confederate threat and gave Abraham Lincoln the strategic victory he needed to prosecute the war toward the preservation of the fledgling American democracy. (I'm not sure this was the whole reason.)
The Dr. Timby story that follows will reveal why he remains unknown in that final resting place. It s to be hoped that this publication and the "telling of the tale" can bring some recognition for him, almost 100 years after his death in 1908.
Although seemingly protected, by law, thru his US patent #356789 first filed as a caveat in 1842, his designs were plagerized by Swedish engineer John Ericsson who used them to offer and win, when war loomed in 1861, a government contract to build a vessel.
--Old B-Runner
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