Illustion Boat. Patent number: 859604 Issue date: Jul. 9, 1907

“This invention relates to boats for going on voyages for amusement and pleasure and to means co-operating the boat for creating scenic effects, and the object is to provide devices for taking boat rides which are apparently real but wholly imaginary and to provide devices which; will, produce scenic and other effects which – are apparently.real but wholly imaginary and illusory, all of which work together to make it appear that a person is taking a trip on a boat ride in the arctic regions and encounters an electric and thunder storm.”