From Find-A-Grave.
From the October 13, 1911, New York Times "Late Honors Paid To Inventor Timby: His Body Taken to Battery Park Where Speakers Credit Him as Inventor of Monitor. Ericsson Came After Him Using Revolving Turret Idea, Which Revolutionized Naval Warfare-- Timby to Rest in Washington."
Almost a thousand persons collected around the bandstand yesterday afternoon to witness a memorial service in honor of Theodore Ruggles Timby, the inventor of the revolving turret for the battleships, who died in obscurity in Brooklyn two years ago, sixty years after he made his invention known.and for which he was never compensated.
Timby conceived then idea for the revolving turret in 1841, after showing a small ivory model of the invention to John C. Calhoun. Timby's friends have always inssted that John Ericsson, who has received credit for inventing the first "Monitor" appropriated Timby's design without giving Timby sufficient credit or turning over to him enough of the Monitor profits.
--Old B-Runner
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