21 Nov 2016

History:

Lost Capitol Hill: Samuel Colt and the Styx

Last week, I wrote about Samuel Colt and his destruction of a ship in the harbor of New York, without ever referring to Capitol Hill. Today, I tell the second half of the tale, and how it does, indeed, relate to our neighborhood. Having proved the concept of his mines, it was now time for […]


14 Nov 2016

History:

Lost Capitol Hill: Samuel Colt’s Sub-Marine Battery

I have often written about the various experiments that have been done at the Navy Yard; this is a topic that draws me back again and again, much like the manufacturing history of the Hill on the whole does. Imagine my surprise to discover that there was an almost wholly forgotten episode that included one […]


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