Edmund Zalinski
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Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski was a Polish-born American soldier of Polish descent, military engineer and inventor. He is best known for the development of the pneumatic dynamite torpedo-gun.
Edmund Zalinski as US Army Captain
Edmund Zalinski' pneumatic dynamite torpedo gun
Holland IV , also called the Zalinski Boat in 1885
Fort Lafayette
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Fort Lafayette was an island coastal fortification in The Narrows of New York Harbor, built offshore from nearby Fort Hamilton at the southern tip of what is now the Bay Ridge neighborhood in the New
Edmund Zalinski
…Nautilus Submarine Boat Company, started working on a new submarine in 1884. The so-called "Zalinski Boat" was constructed in Hendrick's Reef (former Fort Lafayette), Bay Ridge in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. "The new, cigar-shaped submarine was 50 feet long with a maximum beam of eight feet. To save…
Fort Lafayette, seen from the Brooklyn / Long Island / east shore with Denyse's Wharf to the left
Fort Lafayette in 1904
Robert Cobb Kennedy, hanged at Fort Lafayette for arson, 1865
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789