US Patent No. 2317837 Swimmer's Mask by CH Wilen April 2 1943 U-Boat_Wall_Art drawn with the swagger of

drawn with the swagger of a republic certain that Manifest Destiny had just been ratified at gunpoint

the breathing tube rising like a periscope

clamorous type of a city already running on telegraph wire and tenement rumor — the daily ledger of a republic two decades past Appomattox and still sorting out what it had become

plotting traction studs across the forefoot and heel in an era when Lombardi's Packers were grinding frozen turf and a shoe's bite could decide a Sunday

19th Century assembles the century's statesmen

US Patent No. 2317837 Swimmer's Mask by CH Wilen April 2 1943 U-Boat_Wall_Art drawn with the swagger ofUs Patent No. 2317837 Swimmers Mask by Ch Wilen April 2 1943 Wilen's wartime schematic shows the swimmer's face sealed beneath a single curved lens, the breathing tube rising like a periscope, drafted in a year when skin diving was still the province of spearfishermen and Navy frogmen learning to disappear below the surface. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventor's