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Scientific American, Vol. 4b, No. 21 (May 1861) (1861)

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so successful, however, in approved gunpowder projectiles, and can discharge the balls may pass, as shown in Fig. 1. Our cut re- determining the number of shots thrown in a given from one hundred to five hundred balls per minute. presents the balls as being fed in singly by hand, but time. In this… … scott river, which empties into the harbor of Port- in action it is proposed to feed themin with a shovel. render its possessors impregnable to armies provided land, Maine, rose to a great hight, carrying away Mr. Winans says that the shot from this gun will cut with ordinary offensive weapons. Its…

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