The Intrepid Woman Behind Innovative Navy Signal Rockets
Life on the Civil War Reserach Trail
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The Civil War sparked technical innovations and improvements to relatively new technologies: Ironclad warships, submarines, rifled muskets and cannon, repeating rifles, mines, balloons, medical advances—and signals. Here's the story of one of the inventors who made change happen: Martha Jane Coston.
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