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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 328

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on a carriage similar to that of a field-piece oron a tripod. Gatling guns were very successfully used by the British in theZulu War and in the Soudan, and by our own troops in the battles aroundSantiago. The Gardner is a lighter machine gun than the Gatling. It consists of twoparallel rifle… … NOIIDENFKLT KAPID FIRE GUN. closed in a metallic water-jacket. Its extreme portability makes it a mostvaluable weapon, though its firing capacity is not equal to that of theGatling. There are several other types of machine guns, but the most ingenious, andperhaps the most effective, is the Maxim…

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