Heralds of the morning; the meaning of the social and political problems of to-day and the significance of the great phenomena in nature .. (1909)
Tait, Asa Oscar. [from old catalog] · Mountain View, Cal., Portland, Ore. [etc.] Pacific press publishing association · leaf 283
be seenthat in these newly devisedweapons a mass of powder isnot ignited all at once, tomake a great bursting forceon the gun itself, but the pro-jectile is started with a sortof pushing movement thatcontinues to increase all thetime it is traveling from thebreech to the mouth of thecannon. With… … Some grains of slow-burning powder. Nos. 1, 3 andthe powder before it is burnt, and 2, 4, and 6 after. provements made in powder and other explosives each passing year put out of datehave preceded, and are constantly adding to the range and destructiveness of weapons. 284 HERALDS OF THE MORNING…
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