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Scientific American, Vol. 14, No. 24 (1866) (1866)

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y” says: ‘‘Among the earliest cannon are of movable ones, B, fitting into little recesses oppos- ‘he builder of the Great Eastern, in his great work found those which were loaded at the breech instead of the muzzle. One of the earliest methods was | ite each fixed letter. The movable letters are… … iu the Mersey, to cause Joliu Bull to commence at Fig. 2 represents also a section of the disk, in The similarity of the rude stone weapons and im- ' ouce a fleet of reavy munitors, which D D is the disk, B B the movable letters ia their plements tound in the north ot Europe to those found on this…

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