for their puny efforts could make no impressionson her steel armor, and besides, if she chose, she couldkeep out of their reach all the time, while she broke thefragile hulls of their vessels to pieces with her ponderousshells. Indeed, if she so chose, this modern naval leviathancould plow back and… … Cavrtesy ofScieatific A. merican. The illustration represents a piece of 16-inch armor-plate showingeffect of modern cannon in the early nineties. The so-called floating batteries that were attracting attentionin the middle of the last century set the military and naval world tostudying the…
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