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Telescope 25 Lets pick up the thread of the narrative from W. H. Herndon's three - volume "Lincoln." Herndon in telling the story stated that Lincoln had been a passenger on the boat that had gone aground; and then added, "Continual thinking on the subject of lifting vessels over sandbars and other obstructions in the water isuggested to him (Lincoln) the idea of inventing an apparatus for the purpose. Using the principle involved in the operation he had just witnessed, his plan was to attach a kind of bellows on each side of the hull of the craft just below the water line; and by an odd system of ropes and pulleys whenever the keel grated on the sand these bellows were to be filled with air; and thus buoyed up, the vessel was expected to float clear of the shoal." Herndon also tells how Lincoln whittled out his model, frequently bringing it into the Lincoln and Herndon law office and there explaining its operation and merits. Returning to Washington in December for the second session of the Thirtieth Congress, Lincoln took with him his model. How much time he devoted to it during the remaining few months of the session is not known. Six days after adjournment, on March 10, with his model under his arm, Lincoln walked over to the Patent Office and filed his specifications and application for patent. The Globo was a new steamer on the Lakes, and had been in service only a few months before it carried Lincoln. Built in Detroit, it weighed 1,200 tons, and was converted from side wheel to propeller in 1860, following an explosion of her boilers. In this mishap sixteen lives were lost. Three years later it burned and sank in Saginaw Bay. It was raised and converted into a barge and was finally wrecked in Leamington, Ontario in 1873. The Canada, too was a new boat, something of a luxury lake liner of its day, making trips regularly between Detroit and Buffalo. Despite several unconfirmed stories to the contrary, this writer is strongly of the opinion that Lincoln never saw Detroit, except from the deck of the Globo . And just as strong is this writer's belief that the Detroit River made Lincoln an inventor. that mishap 14 lives were lost; the fact graphically illustrated in this contemporary woodcut. Subsequent to this the Globe was rebuilt into a propeller. Photograph: Rev. E. J. Dowling, S. J.