One questionable spelling has been retained as follows:

Footnote [20]: “Sur le Multiplier electro-magnetique”—should be “Multiplicateur”?


"> Contributions from
The Museum of History and Technology:
Paper 39
Fulton’s “Steam Battery”:
Blockship and Catamaran

Howard I. Chapelle

[SURVIVING DESIGNS FOR FLOATING BATTERIES]145
[CONTROVERSIAL DESCRIPTIONS]147
[COPENHAGEN PLANS]150
[HISTORY OF DOUBLE-HULL CRAFT]152
[SAIL AND INBOARD PLANS]157
[RECONSTRUCTING THE PLANS]161
[NAVAL STEAMERS]167
[INDEX]