Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 261
on is also more liable to injury from rust, than bronze, or cast-iron; and the smallest crack admitting moisture, would, ofitself, in time, seriously injure the gun. The first cost of wrought-iron cannon is the same as that of bronze, and more thaasix times that of cast-iron. Bronze guns, it may be… … CARDING. 255
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