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The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], The torpedo. (search)
nah river and raise the blockade of Fort Pulaski, with the additional inducements for its trial of cheapness and simplicity of construction. I know, from the experience of others, how difficult it is to induce the authorities to test the invention of an humble individual.--Theory (too often false) is ladies out with a no sparing hand by would-be savannas to prove possibilities impossible. Had such been listened to, the world would never have had a Fulton, a Stevenson, a Morse, and other great benefactors of mankind. Amongst the many invention of our citizens now thrown a side as rubbish, untreated, some might be found (although condemned by the theorists) of usefulness to the country. At the very time that the little steamer Straus was entering the port of Liverpool, after a successful voyage across the Atlantic, Dr. Lardner, the great gun of theorists, was edifying an audience with a learned argument to prove the impossibility of steamers being employed in ocean navigation.