american civil war

  1. Graham1973

    A US Civil War era Helicopter (aka Valomotive/Reconoiterer)

    I'm putting this here as I think this is the most appropriate place for this, if anyone thinks otherwise please move this to the correct place. Emerging Civil War: The Helicopter Designed by A Union Chief Engineer As with many pre-internal combustion designs the issue was the weight of the...
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  2. W

    Aircraft of the American Civil War Era.

    Hi folks, Noting a few discussions of flying machines / balloons for offensive ops. of the era of the American Civil War / War Between The States, I thought I’d try to group a few references and images into one thread. See also thread on Powers 1862 rotorcraft...
  3. W

    William C. Powers 1862 ‘Confederate Helicopter’.

    This 1862 sort-of rotorcraft project is mentioned elsewhere (http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,13346.msg186485.html#msg186485) but I thought the additional images and text below might justify giving it its own thread: "The American Civil War brought about great advances in...
  4. K

    Confederate rocket powered boat

    Mark K. Ragan in his excellent book “Union and Confederate Submarine Warfare in the Civil War” (pp. 108-109) mentioned such a boat. Below is the part of the text, that is the only source of information about this novel craft: While Marshall and the other founders of the Triton Company tried to...
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