Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 257
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. 25c
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