Monroe County PA Archives News.....Colt's Submarine Battery August 31, 1842
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Jeffersonian Republican. (Stroudsburg, Pa.) August 31, 1842
Mr. Colt's Submarine Battery which was exploded with such perfect success on
Saturday last in the Potomac, is designed to protect rivers and narrow channels from
the entrance of hostile fleets or ships by placing in such channels large quantities
of gunpowder contained in tight metallic cases, which may lay on the bottom an
indefinite time, ready for use when wanted, thus is formed the battery. By some
means, not explained, the inventor is enabled to communicate fire to this battery at
will, though the operator may be, as he was in the present case several miles from,
the terrible instrument of his power. Daily Chron

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