US Patent No. 38371 Projector for Sea Oiling Shells by AH Walker April 3 1888 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame the camera unaware it had

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US Patent No. 38371 Projector for Sea Oiling Shells by AH Walker April 3 1888 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame the camera unaware it hadUs Patent No. 38371 Projector for Sea Oiling Shells by Ah Walker April 3 1888 A. H. Walker's 1888 engineering filing reads like a maritime curiosity, an apparatus designed to hurl oil filled shells across heaving seas to calm the swells. The schematic belongs to that brief Victorian moment when sailors believed, with patented certainty, that a thrown vessel of oil could tame the Atlantic itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts