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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 324

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into which the bullets fit. The bottom separator fits bymeans of lugs into recesses at the base of the shrapnel, and prevents inde-pendent rotation of the charge of bullets. The top separator is smooth onits upper side, and is kept firmly in place by the head of the projectile,which screws against… … MODERN SHRAPNEL. The shrapnel for the 3.2-inch gun contains 162 bullets one half inch indiameter and weighing 41 to the pound. The total number of bullets andindividual pieces in the shrapnel is 201. The heavy sea-coast guns are now mounted either in armored turrets, enbarbette, or on disappearing…

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