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Scientific American, Vol. 12, No. 21 (January 31, 1857) (1857)

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air, it rests upon patentee, are thus preserved by this appara- ped in the melted cement, and allowed to cool Gun Cotton and Gunpowder. the bottom, and its object is to brace the can tus, and their peculiar flavors retained; and Gun cotton, also known as nitrate oflignine ora piece of thin india… … produced a temperature of 330° In many after the expulsion of air. The tin tube, B, is thousand trials no accident has ever occurred. soldered to the side of the can and the tube, 2nd, it may burst the gun. Accidents of d, is made to fit smoothly in the jar, K, in- this kind have only arisen from…

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