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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 309

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al or papier mache ; though in some systems they were furnishedwith studs or buttons which fitted into the grooves of the bore. In the caseof the Whitworth gun, the projectile was made nearly of the exact size andform of the bore, so as to fit accurately into the grooves. Breech-loading cannon were… … KODMAN GUN. or even in rapidity of fire than the muzzle-loaders. Not only were breech-loading cannon adopted with seeming reluctance, but rifled cannon generallywere looked upon with disfavor by many artillerists of the old school.Hohenlohe tells of.an old Prussian general of artillery who was so…

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