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Source of information in this article?[edit]

I was about to make some minor formatting changes to this very interesting new article, but then I discovered that it was taken almost verbatim from Ingenious Steam Machines, by Dr. Robert T. Rhode, in the November/December 2003 issue of Farm Collector. It looks like a clear case of copyright violation to me. Does anybody know anything about the author, or the journal in which it appeared? Would they wish to see their article duplicated in Wikipedia? If not, I would be glad to try to summarize this material and find information from other sources to include in the resulting Wiki article.

-- DutchmanInDisguise (talk) 19:16, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say go ahead and trim out and rewrite the infringing content. I added a ref (and it cites other refs) that might be of use. DMacks (talk) 21:30, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mythbusters[edit]

According to [1] there was a Mythbusters episode about this gun, #93 – "Confederate Steam Gun", which premiered in December 2007. Might be worth checking out. Someone not using his real name (talk) 00:41, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

So where was it during the latter part of the war?[edit]

The last paragraph of the main section says

Following its capture, the gun was tested by members of the 6th Massachusetts Infantry, before being sent North, via Annapolis, Fortress Monroe, and eventually to Lowell, Massachusetts, where it was presented to a mechanic's organization. Despite receiving significant political and media attention throughout the spring of 1861, it made no contribution to the war itself. It remained little more than a curiosity, eventually being scrapped long after the war.

But then the caption of the accompanying photo says

The Steam Gun defended the Thomas Viaduct for the remainder of the Civil War after capture

Well but these seem contradictory. The text implies that it stopped moving in Lowell (altho it doesn't say that). It also says "it made no contribution to the war itself", but guarding the Thomas Viaduct would be a contribution, I guess, albeit quite small... so hmmm. Herostratus (talk) 16:56, 1 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]