Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 705
ine, and 6 per cent, of a com-pound of collodion, gun-cotton, camphor, and ether; it is exploded by mere percussionagainst any hard and solid body, and it seems to be wholly within the power of the manipu-lator to prevent premature explosions, ihe gun employed in the experiments, that tookplace… … together, and backed by oak beams; the charge of explosive was 10 lbs. Ten shots werefired without accident of any kind, and without damage to the gun, the target being com-pletely destroyed by one of the shots. In 1883, in Germany, a patent was obtained for the construction of a shell to be…
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