Driggs, Louis Labadie (1868-1942)
Existence: 1868 - 1942
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1868 - 1942
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Louis Labadie Driggs speech, "Automatic Ordnance in the American Navy"
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Louis Labadie Driggs speech, "Automatic Ordnance in the American Navy"
Collection
Accession: 2868
Abstract:
Louis Labadie "L.L." Driggs (1868-1942) was a weapons manufacturer, who, along with his brother, U.S. Navy Commander William Hale "W.H." Driggs (1847-1908), and fellow Navy officer Samuel Seabury (?-1902) founded Driggs-Seabury Ordnance Company in 1897. This item is a typewritten speech given by L.L. Driggs, likely to the New York Yacht Club, promoting a semi-automatic gun invented by W.H. Driggs.
Dates:
circa 1900
