{"id":4973,"date":"2025-09-30T08:42:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:42:18","slug":"september-30-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4973","title":{"rendered":"September 30, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On September 30, 1862, U.S. patent No. 36,593 to Theodore Ruggles Timby for a revolving Gun Turret.  <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"489\" height=\"732\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-7.png 489w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-7-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Swedish-born architect John Ericsson built an ironclad warship &#8212; the Monitor &#8212; for the Union Navy, he incorporated Timby&#8217;s gun turret.  The Monitor cost $195,000 to build, and the Union Navy paid $270,000. Timby received a 5 percent commission of $13,500 for his turret design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 30, 1862, U.S. patent No. 36,593 to Theodore Ruggles Timby for a revolving Gun Turret. When Swedish-born architect John Ericsson built an ironclad warship &#8212; the Monitor &#8212; for the Union Navy, he incorporated Timby&#8217;s gun turret. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4973\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4975,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions\/4975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}