Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 451
erful gun of all is the Maxim gun. This isactually a weapon that loads and shoots by itself.Think of how astonished the ancients would havebeen if suddenly confronted with one of thesemachines, a half-mile away from them, strikingdown their men with imperceptible missiles ! It is well known by… … idly very long, for the barrels would get too hot, andall the parts become so fouled with soot and gas asto jam together. Only a century ago, it was thoughtwonderful that a regiment in the army of Fred- CATAPULTS. ANCIENT AND MODERN ARTILLERY. 439 unlike the rest, of but a single barrelbreech…
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