Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD
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Monday, July 10, 2017
Winans friction wheel for the new railroads
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Ross Winans ( 1796-1877) was born in NJ and moved to Md in the late 1820s as the B&O railroad was starting. He invented the friction wh...
Monday, July 3, 2017
The Baltimore or Winans Steam Gun - Civil War
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At the start of the Civil War, a bullet proof "steam gun" was patented by Charles Dickinson and worked on in Ross Winans foundry i...
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