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Edmund Zalinski, the Glossary

Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski, (December 13, 1849 – March 11, 1909) was a Polish-born American soldier, military engineer and inventor.^[1]

44 relations: Aide-de-camp, American Civil War, Battle of Hatcher's Run, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Boroughs of New York City, Brayton cycle, Brooklyn, Captain (United States), Detonator, Dynamite gun, Europe, Fort Jefferson (Florida), Fort Lafayette, Fort Monroe, Fort Totten (Queens), Holland IV, Internetowa encyklopedia PWN, Jews, John Philip Holland, Kórnik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Military engineering, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Military science, Nelson A. Miles, New York City, Pneumatic weapon, Pneumonia, Province of Posen, Rifling, Robert E. Lee, Rochester, New York, Samuel Mudd, San Francisco, Seneca Falls, New York, Submarine, Submarine mines in United States harbor defense, Syracuse, New York, Telescopic sight, United States Army, United States Army Field Artillery School, Virginia, WIEM Encyklopedia, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment.
Military personnel from the Province of Posen
People from Kórnik
Polish inventors
Polish people of the American Civil War
Submarine pioneers

Aide-de-camp

An aide-de-camp (French expression meaning literally "helper in the military camp") is a personal assistant or secretary to a person of high rank, usually a senior military, police or government officer, or to a member of a royal family or a head of state.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Battle of Hatcher's Run

The Battle of Hatcher's Run, also known as Dabney's Mill, Armstrong's Mill, Rowanty Creek, and Vaughan Road, fought February 5–7, 1865, was one in a series of Union offensives during the siege of Petersburg, aimed at cutting off Confederate supply traffic on Boydton Plank Road and the Weldon Railroad west of Petersburg, Virginia.

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Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

Bay Ridge is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Boroughs of New York City

The boroughs of New York City are the five major governmental districts that compose New York City.

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Brayton cycle

The Brayton cycle, also known as the Joule cycle, is a thermodynamic cycle that describes the operation of certain heat engines that have air or some other gas as their working fluid.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Captain (United States)

In the uniformed services of the United States, captain is a commissioned-officer rank.

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Detonator

A detonator, sometimes called a blasting cap in the US, is a small sensitive device used to provoke a larger, more powerful but relatively insensitive secondary explosive of an explosive device used in commercial mining, excavation, demolition, etc.

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Dynamite gun

A dynamite gun is any of a class of artillery pieces that use compressed air to propel an explosive projectile (such as one containing dynamite).

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Fort Jefferson (Florida)

Fort Jefferson is a former U.S. military coastal fortress in the Dry Tortugas National Park of Florida.

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Fort Lafayette

Fort Lafayette was an island coastal fortification in the Narrows of New York Harbor, built offshore from Fort Hamilton at the southern tip of what is now Bay Ridge in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Fort Monroe

Fort Monroe is a former military installation in Hampton, Virginia, at Old Point Comfort, the southern tip of the Virginia Peninsula, United States.

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Fort Totten (Queens)

Fort Totten is a former active United States Army installation in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Holland IV

The Holland IV, also called the Zalinski Boat, was an experimental submarine built by John Philip Holland and financed by United States Army Lieutenant Edmund Zalinski in 1885.

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Internetowa encyklopedia PWN

Internetowa encyklopedia PWN (Polish for Internet PWN Encyclopedia) is a free online Polish-language encyclopedia published by Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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John Philip Holland

John Philip Holland (Seán Pilib Ó hUallacháin/Ó Maolchalann) (February 24, 1841August 12, 1914) was an Irish-American engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine, Holland 1. Edmund Zalinski and John Philip Holland are 19th-century American inventors and submarine pioneers.

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Kórnik

Kórnik is a town with about 7,600 inhabitants (2018), located in western Poland, about south-east of the city of Poznań.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Military engineering

Military engineering is loosely defined as the art, science, and practice of designing and building military works and maintaining lines of military transport and military communications.

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Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States

The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS), or, simply, the Loyal Legion, is a United States military order organized on April 15, 1865, by three veteran officers of the Union Army.

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Military science

Military science is the study of military processes, institutions, and behavior, along with the study of warfare, and the theory and application of organized coercive force.

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Nelson A. Miles

Nelson Appleton Miles (August 8, 1839 – May 15, 1925) was a United States Army officer who served in the American Civil War, the American Indian Wars and the Spanish–American War.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Pneumatic weapon

A pneumatic weapon is a weapon that fires a projectile by means of air pressure, similar in principle to the operation of pneumatic tube delivery systems.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Province of Posen

The Province of Posen (Provinz Posen; Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1848 to 1920, occupying most of the historical Greater Poland.

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Rifling

Rifling is the term for helical grooves machined into the internal surface of a firearms's barrel for imparting a spin to a projectile to improve its aerodynamic stability and accuracy.

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Robert E. Lee

Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, toward the end of which he was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army.

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Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Monroe County.

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Samuel Mudd

Samuel Alexander Mudd Sr. (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883) was an American physician who was imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth concerning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Seneca Falls, New York

Seneca Falls is a town in Seneca County, New York, United States.

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Submarine

A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

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Submarine mines in United States harbor defense

The modern era of defending American harbors with controlled mines or submarine mines (originally referred to as "torpedoes") began in the post-Civil War period, and was a major part of US harbor defenses from circa 1900 to 1947.

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Syracuse, New York

Syracuse is a city in, and the county seat of, Onondaga County, New York, United States.

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Telescopic sight

A telescopic sight, commonly called a scope informally, is an optical sighting device based on a refracting telescope.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Army Field Artillery School

The United States Army Field Artillery School (USAFAS) trains Field Artillery Soldiers and Marines in tactics, techniques, and procedures for the employment of fire support systems in support of the maneuver commander.

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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WIEM Encyklopedia

WIEM Encyklopedia (full name in Wielka Interaktywna Encyklopedia Multimedialna - "Great Interactive Multimedia Encyclopedia"; in Polish, wiem also means 'I know') is a Polish Internet encyclopedia.

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5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment

The 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment is an Air Defense Artillery regiment of the United States Army, first formed in 1861 in the Regular Army as the 5th Regiment of Artillery.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Zalinski

Also known as Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski, Edmund Ludwik Zalinski, Edmund Ludwik Żaliński, Zalinski, Żaliński.

Edmund Zalinski, the Glossary

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Military personnel from the Province of Posen

People from Kórnik

Polish inventors

Polish people of the American Civil War

Submarine pioneers

References