%0 Generic %A Moor, Henry, %E Polk, James K. %T Confidential. National defence Navy Yard, New York, May 10th, 1846. Sir--I have the honor to inform you, that in the month of May last, the happy idea occurred to me, that a shell could be exploded during its flight by electricity, if it were fired with small wires attached to it of considerably greater length than the distance to which the shell was to be thrown ... %U https://ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/login?url=http://opac.newsbank.com/select/broadsides1/6739