Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 517
der A. P. Cooke, U. S. N. (New York, 1875), and toa valuable report by Col. T. T. S. Laidley, U. S. Ordnance Corps, on European gunpowder, guncotton,and gun-carriages, published in Report of Chief of Ordnance U. S. A. for 1877. To both of theseworks the reader is referred for detailed information,… … those which project small-arm bullets in great numbers, and the second those which throw shells andlarge projectiles. The first are the mitrailleuses proper; the second, revolving cannon. Mitrailleuses.— Tlie Gailing Gun.—This weapon, which has proved the most successful of itsclass, was invented…
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