Scope and content Correspondence, patents, drawings, accounts, affidavits, bonds, and other legal documents mainly concerning the invention, manufacture, and sale of an artillery device consisting of a revolving battery for projecting balls, and the Empire loom and related textile improvements, but also referring to hay forks, rotary pumps, weather vanes, and other inventions of Rensselaer Reynolds and his son Robert. Also, related papers of Rensselaer Reynolds's brothers and business associates, James and...