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Van Nostrand's engineering magazine (1879)

[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 16

An illustration from Van Nostrand's engineering magazine, 1879, leaf 16
lar area of about face of the target and passed entirely two feet in diameter. The outer plate through the backing. These bolts are in- was sprung from the bolts at each eud. dicated in the figures by numbers. Be- The outer pair of plates separated about a fore this target was constructed, 265… … Fig. 3. uninjured. An old crack in the middle pounds, were exploded against plates upright, due to checking, had widened fastened to this same structure without . slightly. The whole structure had sprung materially damaging it. back two inches, but had recovered itself The No. 1 kisselguhr dynamite…

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